If I am shopping for the basic necessities to keep my household functioning, whether that’s food or toothpaste or a special event outfit for my toddler, I’m engaging in labor.(A labor that, to be clear, falls disproportionately on women, particularly mothers, as one facet of the often invisible workload involved in running a home… just ask my husband when he last bought toilet paper or how he manages to never run out of hole-free socks 🙃).