The pandemic exposed what Emma Dowling calls the Care Crisis in her excellent book, The Care Crisis: What Caused it and How Can We End It? We've long been in a care crisis, but now we are finally talking about it. Well, some of us are. I recommend Dowling’s book whole-heartedly. It’s written within a UK context but has global insights. I read it on a flight from Denver to New York City this last weekend, marking it up so furiously my seatmate thought I was reviewing it. In the book, Dowling interrogates the role governments and markets have played in actively devaluing care. She rightly notes that capitalism and unpaid care do not exist in opposition to each other. Rather, capitalism depends upon unpaid care to survive. Without unpaid care as a submissive superstructure, American capitalism cannot exist.
Get to Work, Children
Get to Work, Children
Get to Work, Children
The pandemic exposed what Emma Dowling calls the Care Crisis in her excellent book, The Care Crisis: What Caused it and How Can We End It? We've long been in a care crisis, but now we are finally talking about it. Well, some of us are. I recommend Dowling’s book whole-heartedly. It’s written within a UK context but has global insights. I read it on a flight from Denver to New York City this last weekend, marking it up so furiously my seatmate thought I was reviewing it. In the book, Dowling interrogates the role governments and markets have played in actively devaluing care. She rightly notes that capitalism and unpaid care do not exist in opposition to each other. Rather, capitalism depends upon unpaid care to survive. Without unpaid care as a submissive superstructure, American capitalism cannot exist.