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Domestic Work
February 11, 2022
Magazine
Joanna Biggs
Silvia Federici Sees Your Unpaid Work
The crisis that Federici identified in the 1970s has reached a boiling point.
April 28, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
On Biden’s American Families Plan and Resisting the Conservative Politics of Care
The president’s forthcoming proposal on care could both meaningfully address the current crisis and open up space for more radical demands about work and family life.
February 9, 2021
Jake Bittle
Overworked, Underpaid, and Cutting Corners: The Crisis in Home Health Care
Employees of LHC Group describe a business model that prioritized profits and compromised patient care. Soon they reached a breaking point: “It just didn’t make me feel right, doing what I did.”
January 14, 2021
Clio Chang
The Dream Job That Wasn’t
A lighthouse keeper, a deep-ocean researcher, a park ranger, and a “Snoozetern” on the pitfalls of “doing what you love.”
November 7, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
,
Nick Martin
,
Katie McDonough
,
J.C. Pan
The Election Is Over. Here’s a Vision From the Left for the Next Four Years.
Organizers and thinkers on where we are in the major fights of our moment—from prison abolition to climate justice and the housing crisis—and where we go next.
August 26, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Chaos of Reopening Schools
New York City schools are supposed to be back in session in September. Are they ready?
May 22, 2020
Rosana Araujo
,
Clio Chang
I Lost My Job Cleaning Houses and Don’t Know Where I Go From Here
When the pandemic hit, my employers told me, “Do not come right now.” No one paid me for those cancellations.
May 7, 2020
Magazine
Liza Featherstone
The Pandemic Is a Family Emergency
How the coronavirus exposes a crisis of care work
March 26, 2020
J.C. Pan
America’s Eldercare System Is a Tinderbox
A pandemic and rising demand expose the vulnerabilities of a system that runs on poverty wages.
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