15 Calling All Nepantleras
Building a More Inclusive Workplace
Ellen Hawley McWhirter
The future of work, like the present, will be encumbered by the neoliberal demand to be efficient, definitive, competitive, adaptive (assimilative), flexible (docile), and compartmentalized. Where profit is the bottom line and driver of decisions, morality and basic human rights may be referenced largely for performative purposes and manifest only as occasional secondary gains. Neoliberalism thrives on categorical divisions, rationalizes hierarchies (e.g., market work above care work, developed world above developing world, and CEO salaries exponentially above those of average workers), and feeds polarities that enable the status ...
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