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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