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We spend many waking hours preparing for work, at work, or recovering from work, and many of us live in societies that, in the words of scholar Kathi Weeks, “expect people to work for wages.” In
The transatlantic slave trade in the 1500s–1800s bound up capitalism with colonialism and racism. Slavery was progressively abolished starting in the late eighteenth century in Haiti and continued through the nineteenth century, but this did not bring an end to racial hierarchies or the entanglement between race, capitalism, and colonialism. Instead, the transition to free wage labor accompanied the rise of scientific racism, the rapid growth of industrial capitalism, and heightened rivalries among competing empires.
The Costly, Painful, Lonely Burden of Care
Health care in the U.S. relies on an “invisible army” of caregivers mostly women. For many, stunted careers, lost earnings and exhaustion are part of the fallout.
Credit.Karolin Schnoor
March 16, 2021
“If society wants us to keep caring for others, it’s going to have to show a little more care for us.” Kate Washington, the author of “Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America”
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In 2015, Kate Washington’s world changed. Her husband, Brad Buchanan, was late for family dinner. She found him in the bathroom, coughing up blood a lot of it. She handed him a bucket and asked the neighbor to watch their two young daughters while she drove him to the emergency room.