“We, as feminists today, like domestic workers in the 1970s and in the early 2000s, need to think outside the box...We can’t think about domestic work as an individual issue within the household, but as a structural problem....”
A conversation with the former head of the National Labor Relations Board fired President Donald Trump.
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