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Author angela garbes
Author angela garbes










author angela garbes

Garbes writes lovingly of her parents, who left the Philippines in 1971 to raise their family in a small town in rural Pennsylvania. The book is partly a memoir about being the daughter of immigrants. Without people to care for our children, we are lost.” Essential Labor makes a compelling argument for valuing mothering through both personal stories and social critique. The pandemic revealed that mothering is the only truly essential work humans do.

author angela garbes

In Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, Angela Garbes examines why “American life is not working for families.” Child rearing, Garbes writes, is “a social responsibility, one that requires robust community support. (This article was originally published on Real Change and has been reprinted under an agreement.) Book Review: Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes












Author angela garbes