Tag: Care Work
Social Reproduction Theory and Disability
What then might those committed to social reproduction theory as a mode of concretizing Marxism be able to say regarding “disability”?
Review of Family Abolition
Alex Adamson reviews M.E. O’Brien’s book Family Abolition. What is the relationship between family abolition and the abolition of racial capitalism?
Five Abortion Strategies from the Argentinian Perspective
Lucila Szwarc offers five strategies from the abortion struggle in Argentina for the post-Roe U.S. and for abortion rights seekers globally
Our Children Are in Crisis
A preschool teacher in Vermont writes about the calamity of going back to work in the fall.
A Semester to Die For
In our latest dispatch, an English professor argues that plowing ahead with university reopening in the fall is akin to the Thatcherite mantra, “There is no alternative.”
Middle School Can’t Be Digitized
A middle school teacher explains why we can’t just throw all of our lessons online in the face of COVID-19 and pretend that education is continuing as usual.
“We Survive by Working in Their Homes, If They Refuse to Pay Us, How Will Our Homes Run?”
Three domestic workers from India talk about how the pandemic has exacerbated the worst features of working in the informal economy.
Sympathy Won’t Win Us Better Conditions
A care worker writes about the struggle for PPE, wages, and job security in the UK.
