Graeber and Wengrow's "caring labour"
 

Graeber / Wengrow 408: "Caring labour [...] is about recognizing and understanding the unique qualities, needs and particularities of the cared-for--whether child or adult, animal or plant--in order to provide what they require to focus. Caring labour is distinguished by its particularity. If those institutions we today refer to as 'states' really do have any common features, one must certainly be a tendency to displace this caring impulse on to abstractions; today this is usually 'the nation,' however broadly or narrowly defined"

>from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

> tagged with #government, #work, #nurturance

> created December 28, 2025 at 10:39:03 AM


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