Analyzing Global Commodity Chains and Social Reproduction

World-systems analysts argue that households take on a structural role within the capitalist system to mediate pressures exerted by state and economic actors. Underpinning this view is supply of low-paid waged labor household members in process social reproduction as sites commodity consumption. Here, I analytical choice use features low-waged renders partial analysis their location multi-sited system. While acknowledging across Global Commodity Chain (GCC) are neither spatially segregated (i.e., global North, South) nor solely spaces production or consumption, suggest differ system, subject incidence instantiation hierarchical relations. First, “core” from peripheral counterparts via reliance financial assetization capital accumulation core for (intergenerational) reproduction. Second, reproduction, excess consumption generates metabolic differentials fuel relations place more central compared ones. Third, GCCs focuses extraction (women’s) unpaid periphery. fully capture GCC, fluidity heterogeneity associated variation intra-household divisions must be analytically considered.