Maybe I'm not smart enough...

[Jolly]

But what is the actual point of this article?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-crisis-in-the-care-economy/ar-AA1smSMM

[Horace]

Generally the point of articles is to generate clicks and ad revenue. HTH.

[Tom-K]

Maia Silber
Position
Graduate Student

I am a social and political historian of work in the 20th Century United States. My dissertation, Odd Jobs: Labor, Politics, and Precarity in Postwar America, examines a central tension of the New Deal order: the triumph of “security” as a structuring ideal for labor relations, and the persistence of precarious labor arrangements even among the workforces that enjoyed greater statutory protections. I ask how state officials and ordinary workers alike constructed and contested the categories of the “steady job” and its binary opposite, the “odd job,” in debates about the welfare state, wage and hour laws, collective bargaining rights, and immigration. In contrast to historical and sociological studies that examine contingent hiring arrangements as a paradigm of the neoliberal era, I ask how Americans grappled with the problem of precarity in an age of security. My dissertation research is generously supported by the Russell Sage Foundation.

My other intellectual interests include U.S. housing policy, domestic labor in a global context, and the history of the family. My scholarship has been published in The Journal of Urban History(Link is external) and The History Workshop Journal(Link is external), and I write criticism and commentary for publications such as The New Yorker,(Link is external) The Washington Post(Link is external), Jacobin(Link is external), Public Books(Link is external), Psyche(Link is external), The Harvard Review(Link is external), and The Chicago Review(Link is external). Previously, I received an M.Phil in British and European History from the University of Oxford, where I was a Rhodes Scholar. Before that, I received a B.A. from Harvard College in History and Literature.

The article is written by one of the people that rule the world.

[Jolly]

Yep, I'm not smart enough.

[Jolly]

@Horace said in Maybe I'm not smart enough...:

Generally the point of articles is to generate clicks and ad revenue. HTH.

That's mighty white of you. Thanks.

[Axtremus]

I am too lazy to read her work. So I’m just going to key off the term “Rhode Scholar” and believe that she has better-than-even odds then the typical Ivy League B.A. degree holders to make it to a somewhat influential public policy position.