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 15^th – Labor’s Twisted Histories: Practical Entanglements and Political Fault Lines

In this lecture, Fraser historicizes the changing relations among capitalism’s three faces of labor. Noting who performs each type of work and who is recognized a “worker” in each era, she highlights both the inextricability of the three forms of labor in capitalism’s history and the forms of misrecognition that have divided those who perform them.

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