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... education, the chapter interrogates both the intensification of mothering and paid domestic work. Using gig economy care work platforms like Care.com as an example, the chapter shows how domestic workers are increasingly called on to brand themselves and are treated as individual entrepreneurs. In doing so...

... against legal, technological, and economic environments that pose major hurdles: a global gig economy that demands high volumes of material and expects it for free, discriminatory legal frameworks based on simplistic narratives about porn’s value and effects, algorithmic ranking systems that maintain...