💰 Care Economy

Books examining the vast, often invisible labor of caregiving — who performs it, how it's valued (or devalued), and what a more just care infrastructure could look like.

Edible Economics

by Ha-Joon Chang • 2022

Your dinner is a map of global economics: tariffs, subsidies, and the myths we still believe.

3.83

3k+

🧠 Economic Myths 🌐 Global Trade 🏭 Industrial Policy 📜 Economic History 🏛️ Welfare State

Edible Economics

Your dinner is a map of global economics: tariffs, subsidies, and the myths we still believe.

by Ha-Joon Chang 2022

3.83

3k+ ratings

🧠 Economic Myths 🌐 Global Trade 🏭 Industrial Policy 📜 Economic History 🏛️ Welfare State

Invisible Women

by Caroline Criado Pérez • 2019

Women are 47% more likely to be seriously injured in car crashes. The cause is everywhere.

4.34

173k+

🧱 Data Bias 💰 Feminist Economics 🏠 Unpaid Labor 🏥 Medical Sexism 📐 Gendered Design

Invisible Women

Women are 47% more likely to be seriously injured in car crashes. The cause is everywhere.

by Caroline Criado Pérez 2019

4.34

173k+ ratings

🧱 Data Bias 💰 Feminist Economics 🏠 Unpaid Labor 🏥 Medical Sexism 📐 Gendered Design

Holding It Together

by Jessica Calarco • 2024

America's safety net is women's unpaid labor. That's not an accident. It was designed.

4.13

1k+

🧹 Unpaid Labor 🪢 Social Safety Net 📊 Feminist Economics 🎭 Meritocracy Critique 🏛️ Neoliberalism Critique

Holding It Together

America's safety net is women's unpaid labor. That's not an accident. It was designed.

by Jessica Calarco 2024

4.13

1k+ ratings

🧹 Unpaid Labor 🪢 Social Safety Net 📊 Feminist Economics 🎭 Meritocracy Critique 🏛️ Neoliberalism Critique

Glimpses of Utopia

by Jess Scully • 2020

A fair society is not theoretical. Its pieces are already running in cities across the world.

3.97

110

🗳️ Participatory Democracy 💡 Alternative Economics 🌳 Commons Stewardship 🏦 Financial Reform 🏙️ Urban Equity

Glimpses of Utopia

A fair society is not theoretical. Its pieces are already running in cities across the world.

by Jess Scully 2020

3.97

110 ratings

🗳️ Participatory Democracy 💡 Alternative Economics 🌳 Commons Stewardship 🏦 Financial Reform 🏙️ Urban Equity

Essential Labor

by Angela Garbes • 2022

The invisible labor of mothering holds up the economy. It could also remake it.

3.79

3k+

🧹 Care Work 🤝 Intersectional Feminism ✊ Anti-Capitalist Feminism ⚖️ Reproductive Justice ♿ Disability Justice

Essential Labor

The invisible labor of mothering holds up the economy. It could also remake it.

by Angela Garbes 2022

3.79

3k+ ratings

🧹 Care Work 🤝 Intersectional Feminism ✊ Anti-Capitalist Feminism ⚖️ Reproductive Justice ♿ Disability Justice

The Age of Dignity

by Ai-jen Poo • 2015

Ten thousand Americans turn sixty-five each day. The fix is infrastructure, not more nursing homes.

3.88

413

🧓 Elder Care 🥪 Sandwich Generation 📜 Aging Policy 👪 Family Caregiving 👩‍⚕️ Care Workforce

The Age of Dignity

Ten thousand Americans turn sixty-five each day. The fix is infrastructure, not more nursing homes.

by Ai-jen Poo 2015

3.88

413 ratings

🧓 Elder Care 🥪 Sandwich Generation 📜 Aging Policy 👪 Family Caregiving 👩‍⚕️ Care Workforce

Labours of Love

by Madeleine Bunting • 2020

The work that sustains us from birth to death has been deliberately erased from economic view.

4.07

160

🏥 Care Work 🔄 Social Reproduction 🎭 Emotional Labor 📉 Feminist Economics 🤝 Ethics Of Care

Labours of Love

The work that sustains us from birth to death has been deliberately erased from economic view.

by Madeleine Bunting 2020

4.07

160 ratings

🏥 Care Work 🔄 Social Reproduction 🎭 Emotional Labor 📉 Feminist Economics 🤝 Ethics Of Care

Doing It All

by Ruby Russell • 2024

The nuclear family was built for capitalism, not kids. Single mothers are exposing a better way.

4.24

🧑‍🧒 Single Motherhood ☭ Marxist Feminism 🖤 Black Feminism 🏠 Nuclear Family Critique 👥 Collective Child-Rearing

Doing It All

The nuclear family was built for capitalism, not kids. Single mothers are exposing a better way.

by Ruby Russell 2024

4.24

17 ratings

🧑‍🧒 Single Motherhood ☭ Marxist Feminism 🖤 Black Feminism 🏠 Nuclear Family Critique 👥 Collective Child-Rearing

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