Beyond Invisible Labour: Reframing Care and Development

Writer: Lina Ayoub

Care has always been humanity’s first profession. Before states, markets, or formal economies took shape, it was care that fed, healed, comforted, raised, and sustained life. It formed the silent architecture on which societies were built. Yet across centuries, this architecture was pushed into the private sphere, feminised, and treated as an endlessly renewable resource rather than a foundational system. What was once recognised as the labour that makes all other labour possible became naturalised, invisible, and taken for granted.

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