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This Book Examines The Human Costs Of Care And Caring And How These Are Reproduced Across Generations-a Topic Often Overlooked In The Theoretical Analysis Of The Issue. I Explore The Multiple Facets Of Social Reproductive Work And Argue That Its Undervaluing Costs Those Who Perform This Work, And As Such A Subsidy To The State And Capital. I Argue That Unrecognized, Depletion Erodes Individual Lives As Well As Social Institutions (family, Community Groups And Our Ecologies), Which Is Generative Of Harm-historic, Present And Anticipatory-at Each Of These Levels. Consent Does Not Mitigate Harm. Inequalities Of Race, Gender And Class Are Critical In The Understanding Of Depletion As Are Human And Non-human Costs. There Is An Urgent Need To Recognise The Scale Of Depletion And The Rate At Which It Takes Place In Different Contexts And Strategies Developed To Reverse It. With Case Studies From Different Parts Of The World, And Building On Various Methodologies, The Book Shows How Depletion Is Both A Contributing Factor And An Outcome Of Economic, Environmental, Health And Social Crises. This Book Is A Strong Indictment Against Overlooking Depletion; Recognition Of Depletion Can Result In Strategizing For The Reversal Of This Harm In Complex And Multi-layered Forms-mitigation, Replenishment And Transformation. The Struggles To Reverse Depletion Are Struggles For A Good Life, Generative Of New Imaginings Of How This Work Of Care, Both Draining And Joyful, Can Be Reorganised-- Provided By Publisher.