#essential labor

[doubledaybooks]

Praise for SECOND LIFE “Only Amanda Hess could step through the blue light looking glass of our phones and explore her specific—and our collective—anxiety, dissociation, data points, targeted ads, and apps; she emerges a more sensate, embodied, and sharper critic. The honesty of Second Life took my breath away.” —Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor and Like a Mother

[wellconstructedsentences]

I want more friends, more casual impromptu hangs, more dropping by with dinner, more walking and talking and advice sessions, more kids underfoot, more asking for and saying what we need...more of what makes life messy, less painful, more sweet.

Essential Labor by Angela Garbes

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"unskilled labor is called that because you don't need any skills to do it" my brother in christ, those "unskilled workers" are the ones growing your food and making sure it's safe to eat. They're the ones who built your home, who built the office you work in, etc. they're the ones who have to learn how to drive specially made trucks for their job so they can pick up YOUR trash

[somuchthatisnothere]

•currently reading•

•Essential Labor by Angela Garbes•

[gwydionmisha]

Angela Garbes - "Essential Labor" - The Daily Show with Trevor Noah | Comedy Central US

Author Angela Garbes discusses America's systematic undervaluing of parenting and domestic labor, the link between racism and disregard for care work, and her book "Essential Labor."