The growing recognition of unpaid work in international law and the Sustainable Development Goals acknowledges that gendered labour supports the global economy. This work can have harmful impacts, leading to ‘depletion through social reproduction' (Rai et al, 2014). When corporate harms impact...

This article concerns recognition and compensation of the intimate, gendered work of caring by family members for workers who became ill with lung diseases as a result of poor labour conditions in the mines in South Africa. It focuses on a recent decision by a court in South Africa (Nkala and...

1. Feminist political economy : looking back, looking forward / Shirin M. Rai and Georgina Waylen -- 2. Gendered, globalisation and the reproduction of labour : bringing the state back in / Ruth Pearson -- 3. Gender production networks : pushes and pulls on corporate responsibility? / Stephanie...

In this paper I raise issues about the ways in which globalisation is taking shape in the material world of economy, together with the changing rhetoric and repertoires of social and cultural worlds, and where and how are men and women situated within these changing and yet familiar worlds. I...