Ms Magazine Talks to Dr. Hossein about the IAFFE

This July, IAFFE is meeting for its first in-person event since COVID at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their efforts to highlight solutions of the Global South prompted a Ms. interview with one of IAFFE’s board members, Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein. 

Of interest is the way in which labor done for no pay, such as childcare or homemaking for a disabled family member, is part of what economists—traditionally white, male and privileged—call the “informal” economy. The social glue of freely given care that makes us human is of little interest to the “formal” economy of international trade, banking, commodity supply and demand, corporate stocks and bonds and currency values. Instead, the “formal” economy sees to it that a few powerful men get rich as quickly and easily as possible.

Read the full article, by Rickey Gard Diamond, here.