Law and Social Reproduction in Colombia’s National Development Plan

Valuing Popular Economies’ Re/Productive Labors

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ID24229223
AuthorsDonatella Alessandrini (0000-0003-4198-3958, Loughborough University), Johanna Del Pilar Cortes-Nieto (0000-0002-5289-235X, Universidad del Rosario)
Year2026
Volume33
Issue2
Pages363-386
Publication date2026-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1072-4745 • E-ISSN: 1468-2893
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/sp/jxaf072
OpenAlexW7125359175
LanguageEN
References cited13

In this article, we explore the legal and policy reforms that the current government of Colombia is pursuing to recognize and valorize the contribution that workers from popular economies make to socioeconomic well-being. In particular, we analyze important claims these workers have made about the value-producing quality of their labors, before then assessing Colombian government policy responses advanced through institutional measures. Throughout, our attention is on surfacing the potential and limitations of legal arrangements that purport to valorize non–wage-labor contributions to socioeconomic well-being. We offer this analysis as a distinct contribution to the work of evaluating techniques for pluralizing social reproduction approaches, with a focus on law. We also contribute to the literature on law and social reproduction by exploring the constitutive role law plays in, and therefore its potential to affect, processes of value-making.

gender and work · popular economy · Social reproduction · socio-economic well-being · Labor Law and Work Dynamics · Political Economy and Marxism · Social and Economic Solidarity

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