Disposability and the Dialectical Image of the Mexican Woman Worker

<aside> ❓ What does Sujatha Gidla’s account of essential work as “sacrificial work” tell us about racial capitalism in the 21st century?

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• Racial capitalism operates in the market and in society
• Ironic
• Title really sums it up
• Healthy people don't need masks...don't doctors wear masks..?
• Multiple tiers of the essential workers
• The hierarchy of the essential worker
  • The doctors on the top tier (Often White and come from more privileged backgrounds) who are directly saving lives vs the train conductors (Black, Indian, Orthodox Jew) who are on a lower tier, obligated to provide the transportation for these 'higher-up' essential workers
• The idea of free labor... train conductors have this obligation to work and to provide for society
• Workers union given very little support
• Different marginalized groups relate and support one another
• YOU CHOOSE HOW TO DIE

On Racial Capitalism

• Relationship between race and capitalism has evolved over time
• Black Feminist theory can be fetishized in universities while harming Black feminists

Melissa Wright's contribution to Marxist theory

• Relevance of Marx's ideas to the present while updating his ideas
• Interested in how turnover is used to rationalize disposability
• Revises his analysis of how capitalist societies become split between Capitalists and Workers
• Works through the intersection of exploitative social structures