Pikaus

One of the big takeaways from GhostWork (Gray and Suri) https://ghostwork.info/ is that many would prefer to work fewer hours but in the U. S. work 40 hours for the benefits. Gray and Suri suggest that if health insurance wasn't tied to employment, we'd see quite an overhaul in work in the U. S. For example, they found that many parents would rather work 25 or 30 hours and not have to pay for after school care.

Presuming that the pandemic is likely to begat a conversation about Healthcare again, how do you all feel about delinking work and health?

In chapter two you set the stage for concerted cultivation and how that went from something upper middle class and up did to being how society defines good parenting. And while some of your cases are from POC, I wonder how much concerted cultivation is tied up with whiteness and even when POC engage in it, it might be what anti-racists would call assimilation. Any thoughts?

Why are boomer and millennial not capitalized?