Intimate Labors
Intimate Labors What do home health aides, call center operators, prostitutes, sperm donors, nail manicurists, and housecleaners have in common? Their labors, both paid and unpaid, sustain the…
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Intimate Labors
What do home health aides, call center operators, prostitutes, sperm donors, nail manicurists, and housecleaners have in common? Their labors, both paid and unpaid, sustain the day-to-day work that we require to survive. Around the world, they make their livings through touch, closeness, and personal care.
In chronicling the history of intimate labor in light of the rise and devolution of welfare states, women's workforce participation, family formation, the expansion of sex work into new industries, and the development of institutions for dependent people, This book takes a close look at carework, domestic work, and sex work in everyday life and illuminates the juncture where money and intimacy meet.Intimate labor is presented as a comprehensive category of investigation into gender, race, class, and other power relations in the context of global economic transformations.