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Why am I responsible for everyone's wellbeing?

Federici's analysis of unwaged labour asks who performs the work that makes other lives possible. Davis brings race and class into accounts of women's work. Rather than assuming why you feel responsible, these perspectives ask how responsibility was allocated and whether it can be shared.

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Silvia Federici

Federici's analysis of unwaged labour asks who performs the work that makes other lives possible.

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Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Autonomedia, 2004.

Angela Davis

Davis brings race and class into accounts of women's work.

Women, Race & Class (1981)

Davis, Angela Y. Are Prisons Obsolete? Seven Stories Press, 2003.

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