What Counts as Productive?

The most essential work in society isn’t accounted for in economic statistics.

Professor Sirisha Naidu explains how feminist and Marxist economists have challenged the narrow definition of productivity—especially in the Global South. From home-based labor to care work, Naidu outlines how the invisible labor of women sustains economies and enables profit—but is systematically excluded from what we call "the economy."

This is a conversation about survival, justice, and what we choose to value.

Circuits of Social Reproduction: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/04866134221099316

How (Un) Productive in Reproductive Labour:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388452432_HOW_UNPRODUCTIVE_IS_REPRODUCTIVE_LABOUR_FEMINIST_POLITICAL_ECONOMISTS_ON_CAPITALISM'S_HOUSEHOLD_ECONOMY

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