Tag: affective labour

The Soapbox: All Women Are Workers

Eleanor Penny brings you “The Soapbox” We usually think that work means employment in the formal economy. But domestic labour – done mostly by women, and mostly for free – is the most fundamental kind of work there is.
Labouring Through Birth and Death
Birth and death both demand complex, intensive care work; of the sort dismissed by capitalism and silenced by societal taboos. In this week's Long Read, Jenny Nelson explores the labour of the beginning and end of life.
‘We build a wall around our sanctuaries’: Queerness and Precarity
Feminists have identified that paid work depends on unpaid female labour performed within the household. But what happens queer folk; those denied access to the traditional household unit, forced to find other ways to support themselves? Joni Pitt (Cohen) and Sophie Monk explore the idea that, in some ways, queerness is precarity.