Care - The Highest Stage Of Capitalism

Premilla Nadasen and Jessica Stites speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work has been thrust into the national spotlight. The notion of care can seem simple enough. But, as Premilla Nadasen and Jessica Stites will discuss, we have only begun to understand the massive role it plays in our lives as a site of economic extraction: from its roots in racial capitalism, where historically there was no clear division between production and social reproduction, to the present care crisis, experienced acutely by more and more Americans. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks