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What tube workers actually do, then, is something much closer to what feminists have termed “caring labor.” It has more in common with a nurse’s work than a bricklayer’s. It’s just that, in the same way as women’s unpaid caring labor is made to disappear from our accounts of “the economy,” so are the caring aspects of other working-class jobs made to disappear as well.
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
Especially in mass society, where knowledge of others may be largely mediated by statistical generalities, there may be little understanding of lived need or interest across groups. A norm of political communication under these conditions is that __everyone should aim to enlarge their social understanding by learning about the specific experience and meanings attending other social locations.__
Inclusion and Democracy
Iris Marion Young
Although it condemns “discrimination” and advocates “freedom of choice,” liberal feminism steadfastly refuses to address the socioeconomic constraints that make freedom and empowerment impossible for the large majority of women.
Feminism for the 99%
Cinzia Arruzza; Tithi Bhattacharya; Nancy Fraser
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