Care : the highest stage of capitalism / Premilla Nadasen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nadasen, Premilla, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older people--Care--United States.

Older people.

Older people--Services for--United States.

Caregivers--United States.

Caregivers.

Home care services--United States.

Home care services.

Community health services--United States.

Community health services.

Capitalism.

Capitalism--Social aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2023

Summary:

An eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponential growth as a new site of profit and extraction. Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work has been thrust into the national spotlight. The notion of care seems simple enough. Care is about nurturing, feeding, nursing, assisting, and loving human beings. It is "the work that makes all other work possible." But as historian Premilla Nadasen argues, we have only begun to understand the massive role it plays in our lives and our economy. Nadasen traces the rise of the care economy, from its roots in slavery, where there was no clear division between production and social reproduction, to the present care crisis, experienced acutely by more and more Americans. Today's care economy, Nadasen shows, is an institutionalized, hierarchical system in which some people's pain translates into other people's profit. Yet this is also a story of resistance. Low-wage workers, immigrants, and women of color in movements from Wages for Housework and Welfare Rights to the Movement for Black Lives have continued to fight for and practice collective care. These groups help us envision how, given the challenges before us, we can create a caring world as part of a radical future.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: The Labors of Life

Chapter 1: "Part of the Family" Gender, Labor, and the Care Work Discourse

Chapter 2: What Is Social Reproduction and Why Should I Care?

Chapter 3: Social Reproduction, Coercion, and Care

Chapter 4: "Tell 'Dem Slavery Done" Social Reproduction and the Politics of Resistance

Chapter 5: Who Cares? Caring (or Not Caring) for the Poor

Chapter 6: In Bed with Capitalism: The State, Capital, and Profiting off Those in Need

Chapter 7: "But Some of Us Are Brave" Radical Care and the Making of a New World

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Nadasen, Premilla Care

ISBN:

979-88-88900-36-9

OCLC:

1393309743