alessandra mezzadri

Alessandra Mezzadri is Reader in Development Studies at SOAS, London. Her research interests focus on global industrial circuits, labour informalisation and labour regimes; labour standards and ethical consumerism; feminist and social reproduction theory; and India’s political economy. Alessandra has engaged in long-term fieldwork in India, where she has and analyzed in depth the formation and reproduction of the garment sweatshop regime, its links to global and local production networks, and its implications for working poverty. She was the India co-investigator for the ESRC/DfID project, “Labour Standards and the Working Poor in China and India,” and sole investigator for the India-focused British Academy project, “The Global Village? Homeworking in the Global Economy.” Her research is published in journals such as Development and Change, Third World Quarterly, Progress in Development Studies, Competition and Change, Oxford Development Studies, and Global Labour Journal, among others, and has featured across several media outlets. Alessandra is the author of The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation and Garments 'Made in India' published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.