Portside Digest Caring in the City January 9, 2015 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? https://portside.org/2015-01-09/caring-city -------------------------------------------------------------------- VIEW ONLINE: https://portside.org/portsidegeneral SUBSCRIBE: http://portside.org/subscribe VISIT PORTSIDE.ORG: http://portside.org TWITTER: https://twitter.com/portsideorg FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/Portside.PortsideLabor -------------------------------------------------------------------- Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it. Submit via email: [log in to unmask] Submit via web: http://portside.org/submittous3 Frequently asked questions: http://portside.org/faq Sub/Unsub: http://portside.org/subscribe-and-unsubscribe Search Portside archives: http://portside.org/archive ######################################################################## To unsubscribe, click the following link: https://lists.portside.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=PORTSIDETEST