Summary of Angela Garbes' Essential Labor

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 In 2020, I was a working mother of two, who found herself trapped in a four-month lockdown as the Covid-19 pandemic swept the country. I was both overwhelmed and clinically depressed, but I still needed to get my kids’ needs met.
#2 Women are not innately better at caregiving than men. But what I found most problematic was that I was the one allowing interruption to be habitual.
#3 The Philippines’ first family of balikbayan boxes has a history with the United States that goes back to the colonial era.
#4 The US government allowed a surge of Filipino nurses to migrate to America in the 1970s as part of a larger effort to recruit foreign labor. The nurses, mostly female and brown, provided much-needed labor in American hospitals.

Sujets

• Colonisation
• Women's Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798350001433
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Angela Garbes's Essential Labor
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In 2020, I was a working mother of two, who found herself trapped in a four-month lockdown as the Covid-19 pandemic swept the country. I was both overwhelmed and clinically depressed, but I still needed to get my kids’ needs met.

#2

Women are not innately better at caregiving than men. But what I found most problematic was that I was the one allowing interruption to be habitual.

#3

The Philippines’ first family of balikbayan boxes has a history with the United States that goes back to the colonial era.

#4

The US government allowed a surge of Filipino nurses to migrate to America in the 1970s as part of a larger effort to recruit foreign labor. The nurses, mostly female and brown, provided much-needed labor in American hospitals.

#5

Your parents might have come to America to better their lives and those of their children, but they were probably exploited or at least taken advantage of by people who claimed to be helping them.

#6

My parents grew up in a country that was exploited, and they still expect to be taken care of by the United States.

#7

The Philippines was acquired by the United States in 1898 as a prize of conquest, and the Americans have treated their Filipino people as backward and diseased ever since.

#8