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angelsrgorgeous's review
5.0
While I don't agree with all her opinions, this book is absolutely vital for our culture to read and take to heart. We can take the lessons of the pandemic, a forced slowing, and move forward to improve our lives and those of our loved ones. We can value the things we've been brainwashed into setting aside. We can re-write the system of authentic value, rewrite the definition of essential. This is for our benefit.
megthegrand's review
Really struggling to follow the train of thought and interspersed quotes in this narrative. I expected more analysis based on the description, and while the author’s background and story is interesting, it isn’t what drew me to pick up this book. As a person who has no children, but is often part of a “village,” the analysis about how mothering is part of social structure is what I was hoping to find (and haven’t so far).
bshoreyfennell's review
Good premise and liked her first book, took a long time to get into the main points of the book.
kapbanana's review against another edition
3.0
As other reviews have pointed out, Essential Labor is more memoir than anything. It wasn't quite what I expected. I thought it strayed from the supposed point of the book quite a bit, and didn't go in enough depth in many places. Garbes is a great writer and Essential Labor is still an interesting read. But honestly, it didn't really offer me anything new.