On the Concept of Reproduction

Weiss, Wendy A.

doi:10.1525/awr.1993.13-14.4-1.8

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“…Scholars have, for decades, sought to expand and enrich our understanding of labor beyond “the privileged model of waged labor” (Weeks 2011, 2015). Feminist anthropologists located women’s socially reproductive labor as a critical site of study (Adams 1991; Nash 1989; Weiss 1993), arguing that we must attend to the unwaged labor that reproduces capitalist relations of production (Brodkin 1998). This scholarship was rooted in studies of unpaid housework, child care, and other domestic labor that was necessary to maintain a labor force but was not valued within a capitalist system.…”

Section: Literature Review: Waste and Waste Workmentioning

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Glut: Affective Labor and the Burden of Abundance in Secondhand Economies

Berry

2022

Anthropology of Work Review

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This paper explores the interlinkages between the abundance of stuff moving through community-based reuse organizations and the labor needed to manage this material. The glut of donations is due to the sheer volume of materials moving through a wasteful linear economic system, as well as the practice of donation dumping, where unusable used goods move through reuse economies, washing their previous owners free of guilt while entangling laborers in messy relationships with objects. I draw on theories of gendered, social reproductive labor to explore how the work of localized reuse, disproportionately borne by unpaid women, reproduces communities. Following calls for work that explores the social dimensions of circular economies, this research uses a qualitative approach that draws on two main methods: participant observation in reuse establishments and in-depth interviews with reuse participants. This qualitative data provides a picture of reuse activities at a local scale and helps us understand the complex relationships formed and perpetuated through reuse. I find that the labor of volunteers is often unseen and undervalued and suggest that policies designed to address material surplus do so with these laborers in mind.

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Section: Literature Review: Waste and Waste Workmentioning

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Glut: Affective Labor and the Burden of Abundance in Secondhand Economies

Berry

2022

Anthropology of Work Review

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“…This turns the provision of food and clothing, the managing of a budget, marriage and childrearing, homeownership, education, and public interventions, into 'reproductive struggles' (Weiss 2008) in which some have advantages over others. Social reproduction does not reproduce just any society; it reproduces a class society in which certain groups are empowered to and within their reproductive labour while others are disempowered (Ginsburg & Rapp 1995).…”

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Social Reproduction

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2021

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On the Concept of Reproduction

Cited by 2 publications

References 11 publications

Glut: Affective Labor and the Burden of Abundance in Secondhand Economies

Glut: Affective Labor and the Burden of Abundance in Secondhand Economies

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