Caring in the City
January 9, 2015
Jacobin - Issue 15-16
Ending the exploitation of urban care workers requires radically democratic alternatives that go beyond the rhetoric of "work-life balance." When mothers migrate to work as caregivers, leaving their families behind, emotional nurturing becomes another extractive industry in which resources are transferred from the Global South to the Global North. But should severing relationships with one's children or parents be the price paid for economic survival?