Book Review: Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes
by Jennifer Astion
(This article was originally published on Real Change and has been reprinted under an agreement.)
In Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, Angela Garbes examines why “American life is not working for families.” Child rearing, Garbes writes, is “a social responsibility, one that requires robust community support. The pandemic revealed that mothering is the only truly essential work humans do. Without people to care for our children, we are lost.” Essential Labor makes a compelling argument for valuing mothering through both personal stories and social critique.
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