The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence

by The Care Collective

Care work therefore remains consistently subject to less pay and social prestige, at least outside its expensively trained elite echelons.

The proliferating expansion of platform-based markets for ‘everyday care needs’, from pet care and babysitters on care.com to the booming self-care and ‘wellness’ industry, is undermining our communal care resources

caring capacities by implanting market logics into traditional non-market realms, including those of health and education.

Fewer community resources, a culture that places profit over people, and a social and political landscape that incites us to focus on our individual selves has meant that cultivating community ties, which enhance democracy, has become ever harder.

It is neoliberal capitalist care that remains detached, both casual and indifferent, with disastrous consequences.

We argue that there are four core features to the creation of caring communities: mutual support, public space, shared resources and local democracy.