Care Work is a collection of original essays on the complexities of providing care. These essays emphasize how social policies intersect with gender, race, and class to alternately compel women to perform care work and to constrain their ability to do so. Leading international scholars from a range of disciplines provide a groundbreaking analysis of the work of caring in the context of the family, the market, and the welfare state.
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Provides a thorough, informative and well-documented analysis of the critical problems resulting from the relative de-valuation of any work women do and, in particular, the de-valuation of care work in a world where what is valued is product and profit. In bringing this collection together, Harrington Meyer has created a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts: one comes away not only with an intellectual understanding, but also with a visceral sense of the impact of these stubbornly entrenched aspects of our current form of stratification on the lives of real people.
–Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
Care Work would be a good addition to courses in family sociology, family studies, gender, life course(s), social and public policy, gerontology, and women's studies. Considered together, the essays in Care Work provide the background for an understanding of the forces that shape the structure and relationships of care across boundaries of history and geography as well as gender, class, race, and policy.
–Contemporary Sociology
Care Work is rich in empirical evidence and creative in its conceptual frameworks. It will serve as a valuable resource for scholars in the field of care, and for those teaching gender, work, women's studies, and medical sociology.
–American Journal of Sociology
This edited volume makes a tremendous contribution to the emerging care work literature....This book is an excellent resource for scholars doing research on care work and those who would like to incorporate care work issues into their research or courses on gender, family, health, or public policy. The empirical work is compelling, often incorporating care providers' voices, and the overlying analytic framework stimulates new ideas..
–Journal of Marriage and the Family
–Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
Care Work would be a good addition to courses in family sociology, family studies, gender, life course(s), social and public policy, gerontology, and women's studies. Considered together, the essays in Care Work provide the background for an understanding of the forces that shape the structure and relationships of care across boundaries of history and geography as well as gender, class, race, and policy.
–Contemporary Sociology
Care Work is rich in empirical evidence and creative in its conceptual frameworks. It will serve as a valuable resource for scholars in the field of care, and for those teaching gender, work, women's studies, and medical sociology.
–American Journal of Sociology
This edited volume makes a tremendous contribution to the emerging care work literature....This book is an excellent resource for scholars doing research on care work and those who would like to incorporate care work issues into their research or courses on gender, family, health, or public policy. The empirical work is compelling, often incorporating care providers' voices, and the overlying analytic framework stimulates new ideas..
–Journal of Marriage and the Family
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List of contributors:
Pam Herd
Sonya Michel
Emily Abel
Scott Coltrane
Justin Galt
Ann Herda-Rapp
Clare Ungerson
Deborah A. Stone
Mary Tuominen
Francesca Cancian
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Stacey Oliker
Demie Kurz
Jennifer Mellor
Madonna Harrington Meyer
Trudie Knijn
Rannveig Traustadottir
Assata Zerai
Brenda Krause Eheart
Martha Bowman Power
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Care work is an act that, for the most part, women do; it is a gendered activity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
routed wages, home care offices, one home health aide, individualized budgets, care work responsibilities, care work relationships, caregiver allowances, paid care work, paid volunteering, disability reform, psych techs, family care work, toxic waste movement, welfare state restructuring, child support awards, generative fathering, child support system, private long term care insurance, disabled employers, paid domestic work, family child care, proximate contexts, symbolic payments, care recipients, dependent care tax credit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Care work is an act that, for the most part, women do; it is a gendered activity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
routed wages, home care offices, one home health aide, individualized budgets, care work responsibilities, care work relationships, caregiver allowances, paid care work, paid volunteering, disability reform, psych techs, family care work, toxic waste movement, welfare state restructuring, child support awards, generative fathering, child support system, private long term care insurance, disabled employers, paid domestic work, family child care, proximate contexts, symbolic payments, care recipients, dependent care tax credit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Los Angeles, Hope Meadows, Basic Books, Bureau of the Census, Harvard University Press, Temple University Press, University of California Press, Oxford University Press, Clare Ungerson, General Accounting Office, Government Printing Office, Thousand Oaks, University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, Deborah Stone, Evelyn Nakano, Hope For The Children, Nakano Glenn, Newbury Park, San Francisco, American Journal of Sociology, Free Press, Harrington Meyer New!
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