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Is Care Work Already the Future?

Is Care Work Already the Future? 980721 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796020980721New Labor ForumRoss research-article2020 On the Contrary New Labor Forum 2021, Vol. 30(1) 12 –18 Is Care Work Already Copyright © 2020, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Article reuse guidelines: the Future? sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796020980721 DOI: 10.1177/1095796020980721 journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Andrew Ross Keywords health care, climate change, labor, debt, living wage “PROTESTORS ARE ESSENTIAL WORK- workers of color, these occupational roles were ERS.” Among the multitude of makeshift signs thrust into the limelight. With the growth- I saw on the Black Lives Matter (BLM) marches driven engines of capitalism at a standstill, the of 2020, this one stuck in my mind. It was hast- care economy was revealed as the only one that ily scrawled on a scrap of cardboard and held really mattered, and the centrality of its workers aloft by a middle-aged Black woman, in a pointed the way forward to a more sustainable nurse’s uniform, who looked as if she was on social ecology. her work break. Needless to say, she got a rousing If planetary life is to survive, care needs to cheer as we passed by. With this sign, she turned be elevated to a top priority of our societies, for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

Is Care Work Already the Future?

Ross, Andrew
New Labor Forum , Volume 30 (1): 7 – Jan 1, 2021
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980721 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796020980721New Labor ForumRoss research-article2020 On the Contrary New Labor Forum 2021, Vol. 30(1) 12 –18 Is Care Work Already Copyright © 2020, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Article reuse guidelines: the Future? sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796020980721 DOI: 10.1177/1095796020980721 journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Andrew Ross Keywords health care, climate change, labor, debt, living wage “PROTESTORS ARE ESSENTIAL WORK- workers of color, these occupational roles were ERS.” Among the multitude of makeshift signs thrust into the limelight. With the growth- I saw on the Black Lives Matter (BLM) marches driven engines of capitalism at a standstill, the of 2020, this one stuck in my mind. It was hast- care economy was revealed as the only one that ily scrawled on a scrap of cardboard and held really mattered, and the centrality of its workers aloft by a middle-aged Black woman, in a pointed the way forward to a more sustainable nurse’s uniform, who looked as if she was on social ecology. her work break. Needless to say, she got a rousing If planetary life is to survive, care needs to cheer as we passed by. With this sign, she turned be elevated to a top priority of our societies, for

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