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We are not polarized from each other. We are polarized from our electeds.” The majority of Americans believe the economy is benefitting the rich and harming the poor. The majority believe the rich aren’t paying their fair share in taxes. The majority support a $15 federal minimum wage.[7] Why, then, aren’t our elected officials representing the wil
... See moreMatthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
Definitely curdled. When I say the word “care” I think it often brings to mind the smell of diapers or that unpleasant combo of urine and disi... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • "I Went Into Motherhood Determined Not to Lose Myself in It."
The demand that one “be all one can be” is double-edged. On the one hand, if one imagines oneself living in a democracy where every person’s self-development will benefit them individually as well as society as a whole, then “being all one can be” is a social responsibility and privilege for each and all. On the other hand, if one imagines oneself
... See moreMicki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
Compared with assembly-line work, “affective labor” may appear more creative, as workers must engage in a constant rearticulation or reinvention of their subjectivity, choose how much of their “selves” to give to the job, and mediate conflicting interests. But they must do so under the pressure of precarious labor conditions, an intense pace of wor
... See moreSilvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
There was a time, the historian Karl Polanyi reminds us, when the “problem” of unemployment for the laborer was not so much a problem of lack of work as lack of wages.22 Today this reality is obscured: lack of work—unemployment—constitutes an acute psychological crisis.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
a socióloga Arlie Hochschild chamou de “dupla jornada”, expressão que dá título a seu livro [The Second Shift, em inglês],
bell hooks • Comunhão: a busca das mulheres pelo amor (Trilogia do Amor) (Portuguese Edition)
One must attend to developing new models of the self and self-making that recognize the labor of others in the making of each and every individual. And one must recognize that the desire to invent a life is no longer either evidence of narcissistic self-involvement or an emancipatory countercultural impulse, but rather is increasingly required as a
... See moreMicki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
The demand for an equitable distribution of resources would be central to any politics emerging from the fatigue of the belabored self. A social safety net with a guaranteed minimum living allowance would be a necessary component of a politics of self-realization.