Feminist strike, social reproduction, and debt

GAGO, VERÓNICA; CAVALLERO, LUCI

HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH ON THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WORK

Edward Elgar Publishing Limited

Lugar: Cheltenham; Año: 2023; p. 503 - 511

The political genealogy of the valorization of reproductive labor, particularly in populareconomies whose leadership is clearly feminized (as they emerged from social movementsand then achieve institutional recognition), is a key point raised today by feminist economics.Markedly different forms of managing and negotiating the decline of the “male breadwinner”emerge between the popular economies. Divergent political strategies emerge from thosegenealogies and definitions. That is precisely where the feminist perspective on labor intervenes. In Argentina, like many other countries in the region, the debate about the remunerationof reproductive, and more generally, informalized labor overlaps with the history of socialsubsidies, won by demands made on the state by specific struggles for the recognition of those Feminist strike, social reproduction, and debt forms of existence that are predominately non-waged in the wake of neoliberal structural reforms.