Political Economy International School - Social Reproduction and Precarious and Unpaid Labour

About The Course

This online international seminar series is built upon the joint Lecture Series in Advanced Political Economy (SAPE) by SOAS University of London and The New School for Social Research in New York in 2021-23. With an additional partner The Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE) at the University of Tulsa, this seminar series will connect the academic discussions to the real-world power struggle and workers’ everyday lives.

We will talk about current affairs, trends in production and work, and their implications on trade unions and the working-class movement. Each week, we will invite leading experts on the subject and analyse what’s been going on by identifying key challenges.

Together with the audience, we want to think about how we can fight against the challenges and build a movement toward a more systematic change.

Social Reproduction and Precarious and Unpaid Labour will be delivered by Luiza Nassif Pires, Anamary Maqueira Linares and chaired by Kirstin Munro.

Luiza Nassif Pires is a research fellow working in the Gender Equality and the Economy program. Her research interests include gender and political economy, distributional aspects of gender discrimination, gender and racial aspects of development, and input-output methods. Her recent research relies on statistical equilibrium and game theory to formalize the impacts of gender and racial segregation in the labor movement with an application to the United States. Nassif Pires has also written on intersectional political economy with a focus on the impacts of social conflict for the labor theory of value and the long-run profit rate. She is also collaborating with Prof. Katherine Moos at University of Massachusetts, Amherst on a feminist input-output project. 

Anamary Maqueira Linares is a feminist political economist working within the social reproduction umbrella in Global South contexts, particularly the Latin American region and Cuba. She received my PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2024. She also received a MSc from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Quito, Ecuador, in Development Economics, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Havana (2009) where she worked as a young instructor for almost 5 years before spending 2.5 years in Quito, Ecuador. 

Kirstin Munro is Assistant Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research. The major theme of her research is the overlapping relationships between people, the economy, and the environment, with an emphasis on everyday life and work outside the wage relation.