ABSTRACT
The concepts of social reproduction and care labour were developed by feminist international political economy scholars to draw attention to the gendered dynamics and effects of productive economic labour. Although these concepts were developed for application to household economic activity, and the globalisation thereof, we argue that they have salience in this political context also. In this chapter, we elaborate and build on these concepts to articulate them into a theoretical framework to explain that reproductive labour performed by a global network of civil society organisations has been instrumental to the success of the WPS agenda. We map out three dimensions of reproductive political labour that our research participants have identified, each of which is the focus of one of the substantive analytical chapters that follows.
