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Caring on the Clock

The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work

Rutgers University Press

Caring on the Clock is the first book to bring together cutting-edge research on a wide range of paid care occupations, placing the various studies within a comprehensive and comparative framework. The book includes twenty-two original essays by leading researchers across a range of disciplines—including sociology, psychology, social work, and public health—and provides a wealth of insight into these workers, who take care of our most fundamental needs, often at risk to their own economic and physical well-being. 

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Making Care Count

A Century of Gender, Race, and Paid Care Work

Rutgers University Press

Making Care Count focuses on change and continuity in the social organization along with cultural construction of the labor of care and its relationship to gender, racial-ethnic, and class inequalities.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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From Crisis to Catastrophe

Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change

Rutgers University Press

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around the world, and the effect of the devaluation of care on workers, families, and communities. In this volume, a diverse group of care scholars bring their expertise to bear on this recent crisis. In doing so, they consider the ways in which the existing social organization of care in different countries around the globe amplified or mitigated the impact of COVID-19. They also explore the impact of the global pandemic on the conditions of care and  its role in exacerbating deeply rooted gender, race, migration, disability, and other forms of inequality.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Making Care Count

A Century of Gender, Race, and Paid Care Work

Rutgers University Press

Making Care Count focuses on change and continuity in the social organization along with cultural construction of the labor of care and its relationship to gender, racial-ethnic, and class inequalities.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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