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Hidden Abodes in Plain Sight: the Social Reproduction of Households and Labor in the COVID-19 Pandemic

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  • Sara Stevano
  • Alessandra Mezzadri
  • Lorena Lombardozzi
  • Hannah Bargawi

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This article deploys a feminist political economy approach centered on social reproduction to analyze the reconfiguration and regeneration of multiple inequalities in households and the labor markets during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on this approach, the analysis unpacks the multiple trajectories of fragility the current crisis is intervening on and reshaping in the home and in the world of work, and their gendered and racialized features across the world. It shows how the pandemic and the measures to contain it have further deepened the centrality of households and reproductive work in the functioning of capitalism and argues that the transformative potential of the crisis can only be harnessed by framing policy and political responses around social reproduction and its essential contributions to work and life.HIGHLIGHTS A feminist social reproduction approach reveals the COVID-19 crisis as a crisis of work.The crisis is reshaping the organization of production and reproduction in households and global labor markets.This reorganization is exacerbating gender, class, and race inequalities.The pandemic has renewed the centrality of households in welfare provisioning and made social reproduction work visible.An internationalist feminist response would ensure access to services based on the centrality of social reproduction.

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  • Sara Stevano & Alessandra Mezzadri & Lorena Lombardozzi & Hannah Bargawi, 2021. "Hidden Abodes in Plain Sight: the Social Reproduction of Households and Labor in the COVID-19 Pandemic," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(1-2), pages 271-287, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:27:y:2021:i:1-2:p:271-287
    DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2020.1854478
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    1. Rouselle F. LAVADO & Keiko NOWACKA & David A. RAITZER & Yana van der Meulen RODGERS & Joseph E. ZVEGLICH, 2022. "COVID‐19 disparities by gender and income: Evidence from the Philippines," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 161(1), pages 107-123, March.
    2. Muireann O'Dwyer, 2022. "Gender and Crises in European Economic Governance: Is this Time Different?," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 60(1), pages 152-169, January.
    3. Rajorshi Ray & Jillet Sarah Sam, 2023. "Off-platform Social Networks and Gig Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic in India," Journal of South Asian Development, , vol. 18(3), pages 359-382, December.
    4. Alessandra Mezzadri & Kaustav Banerjee, 2021. "The afterlife of industrial work: Urban-to-rural labour transitions from the factory to the informal economy," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2021-158, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    5. Geert De Neve & Kaveri Medappa & Rebecca Prentice, 2023. "India’s Gig Economy Workers at the Time of Covid-19: An Introduction," Journal of South Asian Development, , vol. 18(3), pages 343-358, December.
    6. Alessandra Mezzadri, 2022. "The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 53(6), pages 1230-1253, November.

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