Nancy Fraser’s 2022 Benjamin lectures are inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois’ claim that 19^th century America had two labor movements, anti-slavery and trade unionism, which tragically failed to unite. Extending this idea to the present, Fraser proposes to add a third­: construing feminism, too, as a labor movement, focused on the work of care. Labor, she argues, forms the hidden link between gender, race, and class.

June 14^th –  Gender, Race, and Class through the Lens of Labor: A Post-Intersectional Analysis of Capitalist Society

Dissatisfied with identity-based politics, many activists and intellectuals are now seeking larger paradigms that can unify disparate struggles. Aiming to advance that project, Fraser proposes that capitalist society relies on three distinct types of labor: exploited, expropriated, and domesticated. By theorizing their structural entwinement, she discloses the inner, systemic ties between gender, race, and class.

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