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Why does my workplace pretend my life does not exist?

Federici's analysis makes the sustaining work behind paid employment visible. Rich's writing examines institutional expectations around motherhood. The comparison asks what a workplace assumes has already been taken care of. Which requirement depends on labour or support it does not acknowledge?

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Silvia Federici

Federici's analysis makes the sustaining work behind paid employment visible.

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

Adrienne Rich

Rich's writing examines institutional expectations around motherhood.

Diving into the Wreck (1973)

Rich, Adrienne. Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution. W. W. Norton, 1976.

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