Social Reproduction and Reproductive/Productive Labour: Processes, Exploitations and Governance

Abstract

This panel provides empirical and theoretical insights on social reproduction and on the gendered and razialised patterns of productive labour and related exploitations in a range of political economy contexts. Addressing various topic including the life on tea plantations, care policy innovations and the private recruitment agencies managing migrant domestic work, the panel sheds light on how some the concepts of Feminist Political Economy and Feminist Economics help to understand processes, exploitations and governance of paid and unpaid labour and care provision in political economies. The papers draw attention to what it means to sustain and reproduce labour in oppressive and exploitative contexts; to modes of policymaking and governance regarding care and domestic work; to interactions of racial and sexual division of labour, as well as to how gendered sectoral segregation and related wage gaps connect to national growth models.

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