Profiting from Care

Published: Nov. 15, 2023, noon

b'The pandemic highlighted the vital importance of care work\\u2014whether childcare, nursing home care, medical care or schooling \\u2013 and the struggles many people face to get sufficient care. Would more public investment solve the crisis? Historian Premilla Nadasen argues that the problem lies with contemporary capitalism itself, as care has become an enormous arena for corporate profit, in which the state is often deeply complicit.\\nResources:\\nPremilla Nadasen, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism Haymarket Books, 2023\\nThe post Profiting from Care appeared first on KPFA.'