Law and Social Reproduction in Colombia’s National Development Plan: Valuing Popular Economies’ Re/Productive Labors

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.