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Roundtable Description: Capitalism separated the physical location of waged work and unwaged work. The idea of the home, the idea of the private family household, and zoning law cemented this division. When we care for waged work, we care for its governance, for its ownership, for its internal workings. If we’re to care for unwaged work, then we have to care about something else: the home its location, its architecture, and its ownership; the family its private nature, its relation to inheritance, its privilege in property ownership. What insights does adopting a holistic “labor” approach focused on both waged and unwaged “labor” afford us at the Law Center? What are the movement and legal tools we feel are immediately available to us?

A group of Law Center staff started reading M. E. O’Briens book "Family Abolition" this year, which made us think about what it would be like to socialize domestic labor, and ultimately lead to the shaping of this round table discussion. We hope sharing some insights from our readings can open a door into a whole new way of thinking about labor.