![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Today’s care economy is an institutionalized, hierarchical system in which some people’s pain translates into other people’s profit. In the neoliberal era, Nadasen shows, we’ve seen the expansion of a new stage of capitalism. Drawing on the stories of domestic workers, nurses, and other care workers past and present, Nadasen traces the rise of the care economy, from its roots in slavery, where there was no clear division between production and social reproduction for Black and brown people, to the present care crisis, experienced acutely by more and more Americans. But as Premilla Nadasen argues in Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, we have only begun to understand the massive role the labor of social reproduction plays in our lives and our economy. Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work has been thrust into the national spotlight. A powerful critique of the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its explosion during the neoliberal era-and a call for alternative visions for a caring society. ![]()
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