Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

Title: Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change Author: Angela Garbes ISBN: 9780062937377 Publisher: Harper Paperbacks Published: 2025 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Non-Fiction 1659910 Publisher Description: NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Angela Garbes has given us the definitive explanation for something we all share: the sense that something is not right about our society's treatment of parenting. Essential Labor is a beautifully written, painstakingly researched, and courageously personal book. Garbes reveals the way systems exploit caregiving and shows us how the essential work of mothering can fix not just family life, but society. A timely and unforgettable book."--Heather McGhee, New York Times bestselling author of The Sum of Us From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an explor