 Circuits of Social Reproduction: Nature, Labor, and CapitalismSirisha C. Naidu Review of Radical Political Economics, 2023, vol. 55, issue 1, 93-111 Abstract: This article offers a reformulation of social reproduction theory’s (SRT’s) circuit of social reproduction that is suitable for the Global South. Drawing from existing literature, the article argues that wage labor is not always central to social reproduction and that there exist multiple labors of social reproduction associated with capitalist production, noncapitalist commodity production, and subsistence production. These stylized interrelated labor processes, which are coconstituted with nature, represent the circuits of social reproduction . The circuits clarify how working people engage in social reproduction even when the wage economy is inadequate for survival. They also offer a basis for interrogating crises of social reproduction when the totality of work time does not guarantee socially determined necessary consumption. These reworked circuits present opportunities for identifying both potential sites of exploitation and sites of resistance in the Global South. JEL Classification : B51, B54, Q56 Keywords: social reproduction; domestic labor; feminist political economy; Marxist-feminism; Global South (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:55:y:2023:i:1:p:93-111 DOI: 10.1177/04866134221099316 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Review of Radical Political Economics from Union for Radical Political Economics |
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