Social Reproduction Working Group

Aim and Description

The Social Reproduction Working Group brings together scholars and activists with an interest in social reproduction approaches. Social reproduction approaches are broadly concerned with the work, values and practices that, despite being vital to the existence of humanity and the planet, have been largely neglected in the study of society and the economy as well as in policy making. The scope of the Working Group reflects the growing engagements with social reproduction across disciplines whilst recognising that this scholarship remains fundamentally grounded in Marxist feminisms. Its work covers the theorisations of social reproduction as well as empirical applications to various fields and issues, including labour, everyday life, inequality, oppression, exploitation and welfare provision. Social reproduction approaches are aimed at achieving a better understanding of contemporary capitalism and resistance to it. There is a strong commitment to drawing out the policy and activist implications of the Working Group’s scholarship.

Coordinators

Members

Matthew Cole, Lecturer Technology, Work and Employment at the University of Sussex

Hannah Cross, Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster

Ben Fine, Emeritus Professor of Economics at SOAS University of London

Sue Himmelweit, Emerita Professor of Economics at Open University

Amy Horton, Lecturer in Economic Geography at UCL

Feyzi Ismail, Lecturer in Global Policy and Activism at Goldsmiths

Lena Lavinas, Professor of Welfare Economics at the Institute of Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Lorena Lombardozzi, Senior Lecturer in Political Economy of Development at SOAS University of London

Alessandra Mezzadri, Reader in Global Development and Political Economy at SOAS University of London

Manuel Montes, chief of Policy Analysis and Development Branch at Financing for Development Office of UNDESA

Johnna Montgomerie, Professor at the University of British Columbia

Sirisha Naidu, Associate professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City

Keith Paterson, University of Aberdeen

Frederick Harry Pitts, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter

Alfredo Saad-Filho, King’s College London

Newman Tekwa, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UNISA

Catherine Weiss

Ed Yates

Hanna Ylöstalo, Senior Lecturer in sociology at the University of Turku, Finland