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  • Care

    The Highest Stage of Capitalism

    An eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponential growth as a new site of profit and extraction.Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work has been thrust into the national spotlight. The notion of care seems simple enough. Care is about nurturing, feeding, nursing, assisting, and loving human beings. It is “the work that makes all other ... Leer más

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  • Household Workers Unite

    The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement

    Telling the stories of African American domestic workers, this book resurrects a little-known history of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s, offering new perspectives on race, labor, feminism, and organizing.In this groundbreaking history of African American domestic-worker organizing, scholar and activist Premilla Nadasen shatters countless myths and misconceptions about an ... Leer más

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  • Welfare in the United States

    A History with Documents, 1935–1996

    Welfare has been central to a number of significant political debates in modern America:What role should the government play in alleviating poverty?What does a government owe its citizens, and who is entitled to help?How have race and gender shaped economic opportunities and outcomes?How should Americans respond to increasing rates of single parenthood?How have poor women sought to shape their own ... Leer más

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  • Rethinking the Welfare Rights Movement

    Series series American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century
    The welfare rights movement was an interracial protest movement of poor women on AFDC who demanded reform of welfare policy, greater respect and dignity, and financial support to properly raise and care for their children. In short, they pushed for a right to welfare. Lasting from the early 1960s to the mid 1970s, the welfare rights movement crossed political boundaries, fighting simultaneously ... Leer más

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  • Welfare Warriors

    The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States

    In her study of the welfare rights movement, Premilla Nadasen breaks new ground by tracing the history of a distinctive brand of feminism that emerged in the 1960s. ... Leer más

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  • Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off

    A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae

    Observations from the lives of African American domestic workers—back in printThursdays and Every Other Sunday Off is an exploration of the lives of African American domestic workers in cities throughout the United States during the mid-twentieth century. With dry wit and honesty, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor relates the testimonies of maids, cooks, child care workers, and others as they discuss their ... Leer más

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    Care

    The Highest Stage of Capitalism

    Narrado por Sanya Simmons ...

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    7 hora 55 minutos

    Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work has been thrust into the national spotlight. The notion of care seems simple enough. Care is about nurturing, feeding, nursing, assisting, and loving human beings. It is "the work that makes all other work possible." But as historian Premilla Nadasen argues, we have only begun to understand the massive role it plays in our lives and our economy ... Leer más

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  • More than Just Race

    Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

    Series series Issues of Our Time
    A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight ... Leer más

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  • The Fall of the Faculty:The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters

    Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the ... Leer más

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  • We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

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  • Labor's Love Lost

    The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America

    Two generations ago, young men and women with only a high-school degree would have entered the plentiful industrial occupations which then sustained the middle-class ideal of a male-breadwinner family. Such jobs have all but vanished over the past forty years, and in their absence ever-growing numbers of young adults now hold precarious, low-paid jobs with few fringe benefits. Facing such insecure ... Leer más

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  • Why Don't American Cities Burn?

    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia—one of seven homicides to occur in the city that day and yet not make the major newspapers. For Michael B. Katz, an urban historian and a juror on the ... Leer más

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