ACFM: Trip 26: Care
Nadia, Jeremy and Keir think about birth, death and all the social reproduction in between.
Tag: social reproduction
Novara FM: Capital, Care and Crisis
Emma Dowling joins James Butler to discuss care in the shadow of capital.
What Do University Cleaners and Lecturers Have in Common? A Short History
Laura Schwartz
As the LSE cleaners' strike continues, Laura Schwartz argues the university management's intransigence is about averting a victory which will benefit all higher education workers.
Sex Work, Unpaid Labour, and the Strike
Margaret Corvid
Capitalism relies on the reproductive, often unpaid, labour women perform every day, including sex work. By withdrawing this labour on Wednesday the Women's Strikers were not just challenging sexism, but capitalism itself.
Novara FM: Reclaiming Feminism: Sex, Work & Womanhood
Eleanor Penny & Ash Sarkar are joined by Lola Okolosie and Juno Mac to discuss the failings of liberal feminism, and how to build a more radical movement that centres the lives of marginalised women.
The Impossibility of the International Women’s Strike is Exactly Why It’s So Necessary
Camille Barbagallo
Kicking off a week-long Novara Focus on the womens' strike, Camille Barbagallo explains the centrality of women's productive and reproductive labour to capitalist society, and asks whether reproductive labour can ever really be withdrawn.
Long Read: Towards a Queer Crisis: On Capitalism & Compulsory Heterosexuality
Sophie Monk & Joni Pitt (Cohen)
For most of the history of capitalism, heterosexuality has been mandated by law. Sophie Monk & Joni Pitt (Cohen) examine the role of compulsory heterosexuality in capitalism, and consider how it can be disrupted.
Long Read: Labouring Through Birth and Death
Jenny Nelson
Birth and death both demand complex, intensive care work; of the sort dismissed by capitalism and silenced by societal taboos. In this week's Long Read, Jenny Nelson explores the labour of the beginning and end of life.
Let’s Try Communism: 10 Responses to ‘Queerness and Precarity’
Jules Joanne Gleeson
Jules Joanne Gleeson responds to Joni Pitt (Cohen) and Sophie Monk's recent Long Read with some thoughts on the family, queer communism and identity within capitalism.
Long Read: ‘We build a wall around our sanctuaries’: Queerness and Precarity
Joni Pitt (Cohen) & Sophie Monk
Feminists have identified that paid work depends on unpaid female labour performed within the household. But what happens queer folk; those denied access to the traditional household unit, forced to find other ways to support themselves? Joni Pitt (Cohen) and Sophie Monk explore the idea that, in some ways, queerness is precarity.
5 Reasons Teachers are Going on Strike
Adam Robertson
Teachers across England are going on strike tomorrow. But during what seems like a golden age for teaching standards, why is industrial action necessary?
4 Problems Affecting Home Care Sector Workers
an Anonymous Care Worker
There has never been a more urgent time to address the crisis of care work in the UK. Exhausted and despairing at the state of the social care sector, the author recently quit their job as a support worker/carer for a home care company.
5 Crises Facing the UK’s Care Homes
an Anonymous Care Worker
Care is in crisis - but what exactly is going on in the UK’s care system, and how might we begin planning ways to create a better future? Here, a care worker working with elderly people reflects on how the crisis is playing out in residential care homes.
Radical Lives: Omar Aziz
Budour Hassan
From IT consultant to Syrian revolutionary, Omar Aziz might have looked an unlikely rebel on paper. However, his push for local councils in and around Damascus enabled new levels of coordination between militants and aided the functioning of cities under siege.
I’m about to be a new Dad and my child will live in poverty.
Trevor Bastard
Rents are rising and wages falling. Even for those with median incomes, private rent costs are pushing people further into poverty.
6 Things You Almost Definitely Didn’t Know About #VagaDeTotes
Alicia García Rodríguez
Word of the huge Catalan feminist social strike is now spreading through the English-speaking left, but who's behind it, what's it about and, crucially, what's coming next?
Focus E15 Mothers: Meet the Carpenters Estate’s Newest Occupiers
Oscar Webb
Since launching in response to the closure of a hostel-based mother and baby unit in October 2013, the Focus E15 Mothers campaign has gone from strength to strength, from a thousands-strong petition to keep the families in Newham, East London, to holding a series of occupations and forcing Newham Council to find them homes. On 21 September the group held a family fun day on the Carpenters estate which culminated in a new occupation.
8 Reasons You Need to Care About the Caring Economy
Polly Trenow
When it comes to the care economy, women are hardly mentioned despite doing the vast majority of the work. With women's unemployment showing few signs of recovery and what little welfare provision existed being hollowed out, Polly Trenow from the Women's Budget Group argues priority needs to be given to the caring economy and the social infrastructure required to support carers.