Premilla Nadasen’s Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Reading Group) [Durham, NC]
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $200 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select.
Leigh Campoamor | 3-weeks | Sundays August 18 - September 1 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM ET | In-Person, Durham, NC
Under capitalism, care is enacted and distributed in unequal ways. And even as care has become commodified, it is nevertheless undervalued. The first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic made this point–which feminists had been arguing for decades–abundantly clear. One response to this care crisis is to demand greater public investment in care. But in her recent book, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Premilla Nadasen demonstrates that this is not enough. Instead, she points out that the “care economy” has become the central mechanism through which capitalist profit is accumulated and therefore, “in the long run, the care economy needs to be abolished.” In this three-week reading group, find out what this means, how we got here, and how women of color workers and activists have led the way proposing structural changes to uproot this system.
From the publisher:
“Nadasen traces the rise of the care economy, from its roots in slavery, where there was no clear division between production and social reproduction, to the present care crisis, experienced acutely by more and more Americans. Today’s care economy, Nadasen shows, is an institutionalized, hierarchical system in which some people’s pain translates into other people’s profit. Yet this is also a story of resistance. Low-wage workers, immigrants, and women of color in movements from Wages for Housework and Welfare Rights to the Movement for Black Lives have continued to fight for and practice collective care. These groups help us envision how, given the challenges before us, we can create a caring world as part of a radical future.”
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing 50% or higher tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month.Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $200 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select.
Leigh Campoamor | 3-weeks | Sundays August 18 - September 1 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM ET | In-Person, Durham, NC
Under capitalism, care is enacted and distributed in unequal ways. And even as care has become commodified, it is nevertheless undervalued. The first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic made this point–which feminists had been arguing for decades–abundantly clear. One response to this care crisis is to demand greater public investment in care. But in her recent book, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Premilla Nadasen demonstrates that this is not enough. Instead, she points out that the “care economy” has become the central mechanism through which capitalist profit is accumulated and therefore, “in the long run, the care economy needs to be abolished.” In this three-week reading group, find out what this means, how we got here, and how women of color workers and activists have led the way proposing structural changes to uproot this system.
From the publisher:
“Nadasen traces the rise of the care economy, from its roots in slavery, where there was no clear division between production and social reproduction, to the present care crisis, experienced acutely by more and more Americans. Today’s care economy, Nadasen shows, is an institutionalized, hierarchical system in which some people’s pain translates into other people’s profit. Yet this is also a story of resistance. Low-wage workers, immigrants, and women of color in movements from Wages for Housework and Welfare Rights to the Movement for Black Lives have continued to fight for and practice collective care. These groups help us envision how, given the challenges before us, we can create a caring world as part of a radical future.”
—
This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing 50% or higher tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month.Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $200 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select.
Leigh Campoamor | 3-weeks | Sundays August 18 - September 1 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM ET | In-Person, Durham, NC
Under capitalism, care is enacted and distributed in unequal ways. And even as care has become commodified, it is nevertheless undervalued. The first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic made this point–which feminists had been arguing for decades–abundantly clear. One response to this care crisis is to demand greater public investment in care. But in her recent book, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Premilla Nadasen demonstrates that this is not enough. Instead, she points out that the “care economy” has become the central mechanism through which capitalist profit is accumulated and therefore, “in the long run, the care economy needs to be abolished.” In this three-week reading group, find out what this means, how we got here, and how women of color workers and activists have led the way proposing structural changes to uproot this system.
From the publisher:
“Nadasen traces the rise of the care economy, from its roots in slavery, where there was no clear division between production and social reproduction, to the present care crisis, experienced acutely by more and more Americans. Today’s care economy, Nadasen shows, is an institutionalized, hierarchical system in which some people’s pain translates into other people’s profit. Yet this is also a story of resistance. Low-wage workers, immigrants, and women of color in movements from Wages for Housework and Welfare Rights to the Movement for Black Lives have continued to fight for and practice collective care. These groups help us envision how, given the challenges before us, we can create a caring world as part of a radical future.”
—
This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing 50% or higher tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month.Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.