In and Against Care Work Syllabus –Anastasia C. Wilson (awilson@hws.edu)
suggestions welcome ❤
The Limits of the Family
The Anti Social Family
Family Abolition
Full Surrogacy Now
Capitalism and Care
Care the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Depletion
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale
The Care Crisis
Anti-Work and Care
The Problem with Work
Women and the Subversion of the Community
Revolution from Point Zero
Care In and Against the State
Women and the Welfare State
Women’s Paid and Unpaid Labor
Family, Welfare, and the State
The Local State: Management of Cities and People
In and Against the State
In and Against the Care Economy
Forced to Care
Feminist Subversion of the Economy
Care Manifesto
Disability Justice, Mental Health, and Health Autonomy
Care Work: Dreaming of Disability Justice
A People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice
For Health Autonomy Carenotes Collective
Storming Bedlam
Abolition, Social Work, and Care
Abolition and Social Work
Checkerboard Square
Torn Apart
Bibliography
Barrett, Michèle, and Mary McIntosh. The Anti-Social Family. Second edition. Radical Thinkers. Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2015.
CareNotes Collective, ed. For Health Autonomy: Horizons of Care beyond Austerity: Reflections from Greece. Brooklyn, NY: Common Notions, 2020.
Cockburn, Cynthia. The Local State: Management of Cities and People. Repr. London: Pluto Press, 1980.
Conference of Socialist Economists. In and against the State: Discussion Notes for Socialists. Edited by Seth Wheeler. New edition. London: Pluto Press, 2021.
Dalla Costa, Mariarosa, and Rafaella Capanna. Family, Welfare, and the State: Between Progressivism and the New Deal. Brooklyn, NY: Common Notions, 2015.
Dalla Costa, Mariarosa, Harry Cleaver, and Camille Barbagallo. Women and the Subversion of the Community: A Mariarosa Dalla Costa Reader. Oakland, CA: PM, Press, 2019.
Dowling, Emma. The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? First edition paperback. London ; New York: Verso, 2021.
Federici, Silvia. Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle. Oakland, Calif: PM Press, 2012.
Glazer, Nona Y. Women’s Paid and Unpaid Labor: The Work Transfer in Health Care and Retailing. Women in the Political Economy. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1993.
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Kim, Mimi E., Cameron Rasmussen, and Durrell M. Washington, eds. Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2024.
Lewis, Sophie. Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism against Family. London: Verso, 2019.
Mies, Maria. Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour. New ed. London: Zed Books, 2001.
Nadasen, Premilla. Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2024.
O’Brien, M. E. Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care. London ; Las Vegas, NV: Pluto Press, 2023.
Pérez Orozco, Amaia. The Feminist Subversion of the Economy: Contributions for Life against Capital. Translated by Liz Mason-Deese. Brooklyn, NY Philadelphia, PA: Common Notions, 2022.
Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018.
Rai, Shirin. Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Roberts, Dorothy E. Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. First edition. New York: Basic Books, 2022.
Tastrom, Katie. A People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2024.
The Care Collective, Andreas Chatzidakis, Jamie Hakim, Jo Littler, Catherine Rottenberg, and Lynne Segal, eds. The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence. London ; New York: Verso Books, 2020.
Wagner, David. Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993.
Warren, Sasha. Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt. Brooklyn: Common Notions, 2024.
Weeks, Kathi. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries. A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Durham, N.C. London: Duke University Press, 2011.Wilson, Elizabeth. Women & the Welfare State. Repr. Social Science Paperbacks 177. London: Tavistock, 1987.
anastasia c. wilson 
This is super exciting and so well done! What a great list. I am soon coming out with an anthropological history on care (Title, ‘Care at the Centre of Empire and the Contemporary World Order’, Cambridge University Press). I will keep in touch with you when it is out.
Warmly,
Shalini Grover (London School of Economics and Political Science)
s.grover4@lse.ac.uk
this sounds like very interesting and important work, and i’ll look forward to reading it. thanks!