In this episode, Lara Vapnek (Professor of History at St. John’s University, in Queens), Tracey Deutsch (Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota), and Natasha Zaretsky (Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham) discuss the interesting intersections of their three articles, all recently published by the Journal of American History, which talk to each other on the histories women’s labor, energy, and food.

During this lively and generative conversation, Vapnek, Deutsch, and Zaretsky respond to questions like: How has the recent scholarly turn to care work shaped labor history and vice versa? What is the relationship between histories of care work and histories of capitalism? How does energy fit into new scholarship on labor and women’s history? How can self care manifest in simultaneously liberative/resistant and oppressive ways throughout history?

Music: King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band’s Mabel’s Dream, 1923

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