This is a place to collect resources as I piece together the project. For ethical guidance, please see the primer On Being Cool.
- Jenna Feltey Alden, “Bottom-Up Management: Participative Philosophy and Humanistic Psychology in American Organizational Culture, 1930-1970,” PhD Diss. (Columbia University, 2012).
- Laura Bear, Karen Ho, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Sylvia Yanagisako, “Gens: A Feminist Manifesto for the Study of Capitalism,” Society for Cultural Anthropology, March 30 2015, https://culanth.org/fieldsights/gens-a-feminist-manifesto-for-the-study-of-capitalism.
- Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, Caring for America: Home Health Care Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
- May Brodbeck, “Meaning and Action,” Philosophy of Science 30 (1963): 309-24.
- Manuel Castells, The Informational City: Information Technology, Economic Restructuring, and the Urban-Regional Process (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1989).
- Chris Degeling and Melanie Rock, “‘It was not just a walking experience’: reflections on the role of care in dog-walking,” Health Promotion International 28 (2012): 397-406.
- Brooke Erin Duffy, “Gendering the Labor of Social Media Production,” Feminist Media Studies 15 (2015): 710-4.
- —, “The Romance of Work: Gender and Aspirational Labour in the Digital Culture Industries,” International Journal of Cultural Studies 19 (2016): 441-57.
- Rachel E. Dwyer, “The Care Economy? Gender, Economic Restructuring, and Job Polarization in the U.S. Labor Market,” American Sociological Review 78 (2013): 390-416.
- Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (New York: Henry Holt, 2001).
- Paula England, “Emerging Theories of Care Work,” Annual Review of Sociology 31 (2005): 381-99.
- Scott Ferguson, Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018).
- Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, and How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life (New York: Basic Books, 2002).
- Nancy Folbre, “‘Holding Hands at Midnight’: The Paradox of Caring Labor,” Feminist Economics 1 (1995): 73-92.
- The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values (New York: New Press, 2002).
- Linda Gordon, Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935 (New York: Free Press, 1994).
- Martin Halliwell, Images of Idiocy : The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film (Routledge, 2016).
- John T. Hamilton, Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013).
- Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000).
- Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).
- Arlie Russell Hochschild and Anne Machung, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home (New York: Viking, 1989).
- Milton Mayeroff, “The Nature of Propositions in John Dewey’s “Logic”: A Reply to Miss Brodbeck,” The Journal of Philosophy 47 (12): 353-358 (unchill vibes dude, she was already a PhD)
- Bethany E. Moreton, “The Soul of Neoliberalism,” Social Text 92, Vol. 25 (2007): 103-123.
- Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail (New York: Vintage Books, 1977).
- Saskia Sassen, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991).
- Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 2001).
- Juliet Schor, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (New York: Basic Books, 1992).
- Johanna Selles-Roney, “‘Is This Not The Kind of Fasting I Have Chosen?’ Simone Weil’s Life and Labor,” in J. Chaplin and P. Marshall (eds.). Political Theory and Christian Vision. Essays in Memory of Bernard Zylstra (Maryland: University Press of American, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 1994).
- Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995).
- Jeff Sklansky, “Corporate Property and Social Psychology: Thomas M. Cooley, Charles H. Cooley, and the Ideological Origins of the Social Self,” Radical History Review 76 (2000): 90-114.
- Joan Tronto, Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice (New York: New York University Press, 2013).
- Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).
- Paolo Virno, “Notes on the General Intellect,” in Saree Makdisi, Cesare Casarino, Rebecca Karl, eds., Marxism Beyond Marxism (New York: Routledge, 1996), 265-272.