Reading path
Labor & Recognition
Who gets credit for the work, and who keeps doing it anyway? Essays and reading about invisible labor, gender, and burnout.
Essays in this path
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Who Gets to Be the Hero?
On heroes, housework, and the labor no one sees
What Hannah Arendt taught me about burnout, and why fantasy heroes always seem to have magic doing their laundry.
Further reading
- The Human Condition — Hannah Arendt (1958) · Book
- Saving Time — Jenny Odell (2023) · Book
- The Second Shift — Arlie Hochschild (1989) · Book
- Wages Against Housework — Silvia Federici (1975) · Essay
- Invisible Women — Caroline Criado Perez (2019) · Book