Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2021
Published In
Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies
Abstract
This essay discusses the importance of embedding the concept of social reproduction within critical agrarian studies. I begin by reviewing the debate over the definition of social reproduction and then discuss what we know about the possible specificities of social reproduction in agrarian societies of the global South. I make the argument that societal transformations in the contemporary agrarian South can be usefully understood as the unfolding of the dynamics of social reproduction. If that is the case, a successful politics would have to take those dynamics into account.
DOI
10.4337/9781788972468.00020
Rights
© 2021
Recommended Citation
Rao, Smriti, "Labor and Social Reproduction" (2021). Economics, Finance and International Business Department Faculty Works. 10.
https://digitalcommons.assumption.edu/economics-faculty/10
Comments
This is a draft chapter/article. The final version is available in Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies edited by A. H. Akram-Lodhi, Kristina Dietz, Bettina Engels and Ben M. McKay, published in 2021, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972468.00020