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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.