The gendered geographies of dispossession and social reproduction: Homeworkers in the Global South during the COVID-19 pandemic
研究了巴基斯坦非正式雇佣的女性家庭工人在疫情第一年的处境，发现全球生产网络中断摧毁了她们的生计，危及家庭社会再生产，但她们的日常实践和集体团结展现了能动性。
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed global capitalism’s fault lines and the deep vulnerabilities built into its functionings. This article investigates how Pakistan’s informally employed women homeworkers, who labor at the bottom of global production networks (GPNs), fared during the first year of the pandemic. It empirically demonstrates how the GPN’s disruption wiped out the limited livelihoods of women homeworkers, which significantly jeopardized the social reproduction of their households, devastating entire communities. Through all of this, women homeworkers’ agency was evident in the everyday practices of social reproduction. The pandemic also revealed a collective solidarity that had community and extended family dimensions. The struggles and solidarities should be viewed as agentic acts of survival, against the economic and socio-political conditions of dispossession that come out of laboring in the Global South, as informal workers.