Care, Profit, and the Politics of Race

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ID21746497
AuthorsPremilla Nadasen (0009-0002-1314-6773, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume21
Issue4
Pages75-94
Publication date2024-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLabor Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1547-6715 • E-ISSN: 1558-1454
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/15476715-11380881
OpenAlexW7162555442
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited23

This essay relies on the historical insights of Black feminism and racial capitalism to better understand how capitalism has incorporated care as an institutionalized, hierarchical, profit-oriented system which contributes to social and economic inequality. There is a long history of profit extraction and labor exploitation from the care economy in US racial capitalism, particularly when Black and Brown workers and communities are involved. Because of neoliberal restructuring and the middle-class care crisis over the last few decades, this form of capital accumulation increasingly became a hallmark of the US economy. The care economy illustrates exploitation from care labor as well as from the bodies of people being cared for. The importance of the care economy also creates new opportunities for resistance and creating alternative, nonhierarchical and anticapitalist forms of caring

Capitalism · Care work · Economic restructuring · Feminism · Politics · Restructuring · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Political Economy and Marxism · Race, History, and American Society

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