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White women like Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton turned from abolitionism to making the case for women’s rights in explicitly racist language; they believed that their education levels qualified them for the vote and to speak for others. They were thus, despite their opposition to one oppressive system, as Angela Davis pointed out, reliant on the inequalities of another one—industrial capitalism. They would work around the edges, perhaps demanding better housing for the poor or supporting a shorter workday for women in factories, but their investment in the system as it existed meant they ...more
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
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