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Universitat de València

Victoria Belda, Óscar Cubo, Jesús Mora, and César Ortega joined Leopoldina Fortunati for a discussion of the contemporary relevance of The Arcana of Reproduction for the seminar “Philosophy, Economics, and Politics” on November 11th, 16:00 h.

Prabha Kotiswaran, Professor of Law and Social Justice at King's College London Dickson Poon School of Law: two research reports

The Laws of Social Reproduction Project is excited to announce the release of two of its reports on Karnataka’s Five Guarantees.

‘From Guarantees to Rights: Assessing Karnataka's Experiment with Basic Income and Basic Services’ is an empirical evaluation of the impact of Karnataka’s guarantees a year into their rollout, primarily focused on the impact of Gruha Lakshmi (an unconditional cash transfer to women) on various dimensions of women’s empowerment. You can find the executive summary of the report here: https://tinyurl.com/karnatakaexecsumm

‘Routes to Recognition: The Impact of Karnataka’s Shakti Scheme on Women’s Paid Work’ evaluates the impact of the Shakti scheme (fare-free transport for women) on women’s paid employment. You can find a copy of the report here: https://tinyurl.com/shaktireport

Serena Natile on Wages for Housework

Serena Natile delivered a session on ‘Revisiting Wages for Housework’ at the Resonate Festival on Monday, 3 November 2025. The session formed part of The Resonate ESRC Festival of Social Science: Our Working Lives, taking place at 1 Mill Street, Leamington Spa. The event considered the potential of utopian/dystopian evolutions of work, and how we might shape the future for human wellbeing. Join University of Warwick researchers for an evening of short talks from diverse perspectives on ‘Our Working Lives’. Resonate Festival website.

Serena’s session pulls on her ISRF project, “Transnational Social Security Law in the Digital Age: Towards a Grassroots Politics of Redistribution,” and will rethink the contemporary legal relevance of the Wages for Housework campaign.

The Wages for Housework campaign started in the 1970s with the aim to disrupt the capitalist system by claiming recognition and valuation for housework labour. By demanding a wage for unpaid labour as well as universal social security, the campaign aimed to expose how capitalism enables the maldistribution of wealth, power, and responsibilities on grounds of gender, race, class, disability, migration status, and geopolitical location. While the campaign itself started and gained visibility in the West, its politics and motivation drew inspiration from the feminist anti-colonial struggles in the Global South aimed at reversing power and redistributing wealth globally.

The aims of the campaign could not be realised without an understanding of global asymmetries of power and through transnational solidarity between ‘housework’ labourers. While Wages for Housework as a transnational movement has informed feminist scholarship and struggles, its relevance in debates on legal reform has been limited. In the current time of raising inequality, precarity, and social insecurity the Wages for Housework campaign is more relevant than ever. It can offer some lessons on whether and how the law can be used for radical change. The presentation will provide an overview of the campaign, its relevance for current workers’ struggles, and will show its prefigurative potential: the claims and demands of the campaign allow us not just to reflect on possible reforms, but to visualise how a different global society based on socioeconomic justice might look like.

Lugano, Switzerland, October 17-18

 “Corpi, lavoro di cura e strategie femministe: dal locale all’internazionale e viceversa”

“Bodies, caring labor and feminist strategies: from the local to the international and vice versa”

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Rencontre avec Leopoldina Fortunati en discussion avec Natalia Hirtz dans le cadre de la sortie du Gresea Échos "La valeur du travail reproductif" et de l’émergence du réseau international de recherche sur le travail reproductif.

Discussion between Natalia Hirtz and Leopoldina Fortunati on the occasion of the forthcoming issue of Gresea Échos "La valeur du travail reproductif" and on the emergence of an international research network on reproductive labor.

Feminist Utopias at Work: Reorganize, Redefine, Abolish

Thursday, November 6 and Friday, November 7, 2025, 8:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m. University of Strasbourg, In Quarto Room, Le Studium Building, 2 rue Blaise Pascal — Strasbourg, France.

ENTRÉE LIBRE ET OUVERTE À TOUS•TES

En anglais et français, avec sous-titres simultanés
Diffusion en différé :
 https://www.canalc2.tv/

FREE ADMISSION AND OPEN TO ALL

Delayed broadcast:

 https://www.canalc2.tv/

Conférencière invitée :
Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development, Department of Africana Studies, John Jay College, CUNY
Autrice de Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 2014). 
Invitées table ronde :
Katia GENEL, Professeure de philosophie, Sophiapol, Université Paris Nanterre
Maud SIMONET, Directrice de recherche en sociologie au CNRS, Laboratoire IDHE.S Nanterre

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