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Labours of Love | Helen Hester & Sarah Jaffe

The Verso Podcast

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How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics

The White bourgeois family in so many ways has always been shorted up by labor from outside of it that was not considered white, whether we're talking about slave labor or Irish servants. That this system sort of breaks families while making them, right? You trust somebody to come in and live in your home and love on your children, even though you can fire them at any moment and then they are no longer part of the family. And also like incredibly unstable because it doesn't actually work as written.

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