ABSTRACT

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.

摘要

本文采用了一种以社会再生产为中心的女权政治经济学方法，以分析在COVID-19大流行期间家庭和劳动力市场中多种不平等的重新配置和再生。基于这种方法，分析揭示了当前危机在家庭和工作世界中介入和重塑的脆弱性的多种轨迹，以及它们在世界范围内的性别和种族特征。它显示了这种大流行及其遏制措施如何进一步加深了家庭和生殖工作在资本主义运作中的中心地位，并指出，只有通过围绕社会再生产及其危机制定政策和政治对策，才能利用危机的变革潜力对工作和生活的重要贡献。

强调

• 女权主义的社会再生产方法揭示了COVID-19危机是一种工作危机。

• 这场危机正在重塑家庭和全球劳动力市场中生产和再生产的组织。

• 这种重组加剧了性别，阶级和种族不平等。

• 这场大流行使家庭在福利供应中的中心地位得到了更新，并使社会再生产工作可见。

• 国际主义的女权主义对策将确保基于社会再生产的中心地位获得服务。