Logistics of social reproduction

  • Francis Vinicius Portes Virginio (Invited speaker)
  • Alessandra Mezzadri (Invited speaker)
  • Hannah Schling (Invited speaker)
  • Debbie Hopkins (Invited speaker)
  • Siobhán Mcgrath (Contributor)

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Description

The seminar proposes to reflect on the organisation of working lives as a mode of logistics. We seek to examine how the complex spatial and temporal arrangements of contemporary forms of capitalism both include and shape patterns of social reproduction. We bring logistics to bear on how we understand the varied places, times, and forms of social reproduction in relation to capitalist production. Logistics not only circulates commodities, but mobilises labour. This is accompanied by new understandings of value, new contradictions, new spatial and temporal ‘fixes’, and new struggles around the spatial and temporal organisation of both waged work and social reproduction. The seminar will highlight work revitalising the labour regimes framework within which social reproduction is a central theoretical aspect. It will consider the varied ways that home, life, and work relate to each other in the contemporary moment of logistics-led capitalism.
Period28 Apr 2023
Event titleLogistics of Social Reproduction
Event typeSeminar
LocationDurham, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Logistics of social reproduction
  • Labour regimes
  • Labour migration
  • slave labour
  • labour trafficking
  • social reproduction

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