Care Quotes

“The scholarship around social reproduction as a site of resistance has shaken traditional Marxist theory out of its complacency and cynicism and awakened it to the political possibilities evident in the recent wave of organizing among teachers, nurses, and domestic workers. Marxist theorists who have historically put all their eggs in the basket of industrial workers are forced to reckon with this more complex definition of labor and organizing that sees race and gender not as divisive but as offering a more sophisticated analysis of how class operates in multiple locations and sectors of work.”
― Premilla Nadasen, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

“The visa system is one of the primary modern-day state technologies to recruit workers, compel them to work, and curtail their rights. Whereas the US Border Patrol polices borders with weapons, leaving a visible trail of trauma, death, and family destruction, the visa system quietly deputizes private employers to act as a kind of border patrol with the power to criminalize and sentence people to servitude.”
― Premilla Nadasen, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism