![]() She details her own mother’s relationship to care work and traces the demands of mothering on women of colour in a global context of migration and exploitation. Garbes is a first-generation Filipino-American. And that domestic labour is essential, creative and influential. ![]() In Garbes’ new book, Essential Labor, she argues that the global economy is driven just as much by domestic labour – “happening in nurseries, laundry rooms, performed on hands and knees” – as it is by what society deems as traditional workplaces. She wasn’t being paid for her labour, but it enabled her husband to work for money. ![]() ![]() The calculator assigned an hourly amount to different household tasks her annual wage came up to over $300,000. Essential Labour Why we need to look at mothering and care work as the most essential labour a person can do and why it’s ok to feel conflicted about doing it.ĭuring the pandemic, US writer Angela Garbes entered the hours she’d spent caring for her family and home into an online income calculator. ![]()
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