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The episode discusses the crisis of care in America with Premilla Nadasen, focusing on the intersection of gender, emotion, and racial capitalism in the care economy.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit overthinkpod.substack.com The discourse around today's crisis of care responds to the shredding of America's social safety net, but leaves out the most vulnerable almost entirely. In episode 170 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss how this works with Premilla Nadasen, author of Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism . They discuss how gender fits into the care industry, the harms of associating care work with emotion, and how the practice of care has been commodified. How is it that we deny the most basic care from those who need it most? What are the harms of framing care workers as family members? And how has racial capitalism produced the explosion of the care economy that we're seeing today? In the Substack bonus segment, your hosts think about the distinction between the practice of care and care itself and how labor workers can learn from care workers in their modes of organizing. Works Discussed: Arlie Hochschild, The Managed Heart Premilla Nadasen, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism Highlight: Racial Capitalism and Care * Premilla Nadasen highlighted several points where racial capitalism is useful for…

People in this episode

Hosts: Ellie, David

Guest: Premilla Nadasen

Topics covered

• crisis of care
• social safety net
• gender and care industry
• commodification of care
• racial capitalism
• care economy

Keywords

• care crisis
• social safety net
• gender
• racial capitalism
• care work
• commodification
• care economy

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, The Managed Heart

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