ICIP and Tigre de Paper are publishing Les cures. La fase superior del capitalisme (Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism), a book by historian and activist Premilla Nadasen. It will be available in bookshops from Monday, 19 January.
The book analyses the evolution of the care economy and how this sector has become a new space for profit within contemporary capitalism. It examines areas such as care homes, schools, hospitals, day centres, cleaning services, childcare facilities, support for dependent people, home-care platforms, and psychological care centres, outlining a structured, hierarchical sector that transforms the labour of many into profits for others.
Drawing on the care crisis made visible during the COVID-19 pandemic, Nadasen adopts a gendered and racial perspective to analyse social reproduction as a key element for understanding the nature and evolution of capitalism. The author traces this process from its origins, linked to slavery, when there was no clear division between production and social reproduction, to the present stage, in which the relationship between capital and care has become central.
The book also gives voice to the demands of migrant and racialised care workers and explores the transformative potential of radical care, understood as a tool for imagining and building alternative social models and more just collective futures.
Les cures. La fase superior del capitalisme is a co-edition by ICIP and Tigre de Paper, translated into Catalan by Núria Busquet Molist.
