Who Holds the World Together: On the Labor That Keeps Everyone Else Working

There is a labor that does not appear in the productivity statistics.It begins before the visible workday begins. It includes the dressing of children, the calling of an aging parent's doctor, the texting of the sibling whose marriage is wobbling, the cognitive list of what the household needs, the emotional repair after a conflict, the network maintenance that keeps a family or a community from q...