![]() ![]() ![]() Read the full interview below.Īngela Garbes: The sort of secret history is that I was already under contract for a second book that I had sold in 2018, which I had not finished writing as of 2020. Vogue recently spoke to Garbes about the book and the lessons she’s learned from her own mother. ![]() Frequently left out of that conversation, though, are domestic workers, whose labor is often rendered invisible, while a parallel conversation has been going on about the ways that we, as a society, have ignored the experiences of mothers trying to navigate work and family responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.Īuthor Angela Garbes’s new book, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, deftly and empathetically analyzes the experiences of mothers and caregivers during COVID-19 and long before, interspersing her own experience as the mother of two small children and the daughter of Filipino immigrants with a rigorous examination of precisely why and how the work of women-and women of color in particular-is systematically devalued. ![]() We’ve been living through a sea change in how organized labor is discussed, with workers from Starbucks, Amazon, and other major companies demanding that their employers value and fairly compensate the labor that they perform. ![]()
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