‘The system depends increasingly on the goodwill of people working in the sector, because they can’t not care.’
This week, Grace talks to Emma Dowling about the crisis of care facing the world economy, and why it poses a threat to capitalist social relations. They discuss the commodification and financialisation of the care sector, the challenges of organising, and what it would look like to genuinely democratise care work.
Emma Dowling teaches at the University of Vienna and is the author of The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?, coming out in paperback in February 2022.
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