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What Is the Value of Value for Agrarian Studies? (2025)
Journal Article
Akram‐Lodhi, A., Yadav, S., Mezzadri, A., & Taylor, M. (2025). What Is the Value of Value for Agrarian Studies?. Journal of Agrarian Change, 25(3), Article e70020. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.70020

Reflecting a longstanding intellectual heritage in Marxist political economy, contributions to agrarian studies have variously referred to the production, distribution and extraction of value. Despite this central role within the heritage of agrarian... Read More about What Is the Value of Value for Agrarian Studies?.

Pluralizing social reproduction approaches (2025)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A., Rai, S., Stevano, S., Alessandrini, D., Bargawi, H., Elias, J., Hassim, S., Kesar, S., Thiyaga Lingham, J., Natile, S., N., N., Ossome, L., Raghuram, P., Tsikata, D., & Wöhl, S. (2025). Pluralizing social reproduction approaches. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 27(1), 6-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2024.2447594

The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism... Read More about Pluralizing social reproduction approaches.

The social reproduction of agrarian change: Feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south. An introduction (2024)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A., Stevano, S., Ossome, L., & Bargawi, H. (2024). The social reproduction of agrarian change: Feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south. An introduction. Journal of Agrarian Change, 24(3), Article e12595. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12595

The last decade has seen a renaissance of feminist political economy studies centred on the concept of ‘social reproduction’. These aim at studying global capitalism from the vantage‐point of what produces and sustains life, expanding the social boun... Read More about The social reproduction of agrarian change: Feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south. An introduction.

Value Theories in Motion: Circular Labour Migration, Unfinished Land Dispossession and Reproductive Struggles across the Urban-Rural Divide (2024)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A. (online). Value Theories in Motion: Circular Labour Migration, Unfinished Land Dispossession and Reproductive Struggles across the Urban-Rural Divide. Environment and Planning F, https://doi.org/10.1177/26349825231224027

This analysis theorises the central role of the urban–rural divide in the making of value relations and exploitation in contemporary labour regimes. Inspired by insights contained in Diane Elson’s ‘value theory of labour’ and informed by evidence on... Read More about Value Theories in Motion: Circular Labour Migration, Unfinished Land Dispossession and Reproductive Struggles across the Urban-Rural Divide.

The Social Reproduction of Value, Body Depletion, and Wages for the Wageless across the Global Social Factory (2023)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A. (2023). The Social Reproduction of Value, Body Depletion, and Wages for the Wageless across the Global Social Factory. feminists@law, 12(2), https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.1217

In this article, I reflect on the entanglements between production and social reproduction in structuring the process of value generation and exploitation, and how one can scale-up classic debates on domestic work to capture trends more broadly at wo... Read More about The Social Reproduction of Value, Body Depletion, and Wages for the Wageless across the Global Social Factory.

Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work (2023)
Book
Atzeni, M., Azzellini, D., Mezzadri, A., Moore, P., & Apitzsch, U. (Eds.). (2023). Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work. Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106583

This ground-breaking Handbook broadens empirical and theoretical understandings of work, work relations, and workers. It advances a global, intersectional labour studies agenda, laying the foundations for the politically emancipatory project of decol... Read More about Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work.

Introduction: what is work and what is the political economy of work (2023)
Book Chapter
Atzeni, M., Azzellini, D., Mezzadri, A., Moore, P., & Apitzsch, U. (2023). Introduction: what is work and what is the political economy of work. In Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work (1-32). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106583.00007

The exploitation of work and workers within capitalism continues to be reproduced according to the political economy of capital: profitability. This drive for profitability produces different forms of domination and control within the employment rela... Read More about Introduction: what is work and what is the political economy of work.

Social reproduction, labour exploitation and reproductive struggles for a global political economy of work (2023)
Book Chapter
Mezzadri, A. (2023). Social reproduction, labour exploitation and reproductive struggles for a global political economy of work. In M. Atzeni, D. Azzellini, A. Mezzadri, P. Moore, & U. Apitzsch (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work (64-73). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106583.00012

Orthodox Marxist analyses have generally excluded social reproduction activities and realms from the study of labour exploitation and value generation. This exclusion has implied that the contributions and hardship of reproductive workers has gone un... Read More about Social reproduction, labour exploitation and reproductive struggles for a global political economy of work.

Exploitation and Global Value Chains (2023)
Book Chapter
Selwyn, B., Campling, L., Mezzadri, A., Baglioni, E., Miyamura, S., & Pattenden, J. (2023). Exploitation and Global Value Chains. In M. Atzeni, D. Azzellini, A. Mezzadri, P. Moore, & U. Apitzsch (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work (125-135). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106583.00018

Concerns about exploitation in global supply chains are increasingly central to public and academic agendas. These issues have been investigated over the last 15 years from global value chain and global production network perspectives (henceforth 'ch... Read More about Exploitation and Global Value Chains.

The social life of industrial disputes: Exploring workers-centred industrial relations in India’s garment labour regime (2023)
Report
Mezzadri, A., & Rakhi, S. (2023). The social life of industrial disputes: Exploring workers-centred industrial relations in India’s garment labour regime

This report describes the nature of labour relations from a perspective of worker grievances in three garment production clusters of India, namely the National Capital Region, Bengaluru and Tiruppur. It establishes a connection between the evolution... Read More about The social life of industrial disputes: Exploring workers-centred industrial relations in India’s garment labour regime.

Social reproduction, women’s labour and systems of life: A conversation (2023)
Journal Article
Fernandes, M., Lupo, L., Benya, A., Dedeoğlu, S., Mezzadri, A., & Prügl, E. (2023). Social reproduction, women’s labour and systems of life: A conversation. Dialogues in Human Geography, 13(3), 473-483. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231177072

This conversation brings together feminist scholars from various backgrounds and epistemological traditions around a central topic in feminist debates that is today more relevant than ever, social reproduction. It begins by examining social reproduct... Read More about Social reproduction, women’s labour and systems of life: A conversation.

The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour (2022)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A. (2022). The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour. Development and Change, 53(6), 1230-1253. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12736

This article proposes a reading of the COVID‐19 crisis through a social reproduction lens, with a focus on the restructuring of reproductive sectors, the world of work and the generation of differentiated surplus populations, and considers the implic... Read More about The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour.

When the Lewisian Dream Sours: Industrial Aspirations and Reverse Labour Migration (2022)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A., & Kaustav, B. (2022). When the Lewisian Dream Sours: Industrial Aspirations and Reverse Labour Migration. Journal of South Asian Development, 17(3), 297-326. https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741221124061

The COVID-19 pandemic has escalated processes of labour transition from industrial work to the informal economy, which have always characterized the life of the working poor. This paper explores this kind of reverse transition, that is, when the Lewi... Read More about When the Lewisian Dream Sours: Industrial Aspirations and Reverse Labour Migration.

Social Reproduction and Pandemic Neoliberalism: Planetary Crises and the Reorganization of Life, Work and Death (2022)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A. (2022). Social Reproduction and Pandemic Neoliberalism: Planetary Crises and the Reorganization of Life, Work and Death. Organization, 29(3), 379-400. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084221074042

This article portrays the COVID-19 pandemic as a planetary crisis of capitalist life and analyses it through the feminist political economy lens of social reproduction. Celebrating the plurality and distinctiveness of social reproduction theorisation... Read More about Social Reproduction and Pandemic Neoliberalism: Planetary Crises and the Reorganization of Life, Work and Death.