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The Care Crisis - What Caused It and How Can We End It? (Hardcover)
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The Care Crisis - What Caused It and How Can We End It? (Hardcover)
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Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care
work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go
further. In this groundbreaking book, Emma Dowling charts the
multi-faceted nature of care in the modern world, from the mantras
of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties, to the
state of the social care system. She examines the relations of
power that play profitability and care off in against one another
in a myriad of ways, exposing the devastating impact of
financialisation and austerity. As the world becomes seemingly more
uncaring, the calls for people to be more compassionate and
empathetic towards one another - in short, to care more - become
ever-more vocal. The Care Crisis challenges the idea that people
ever stopped caring, but also that the deep and multi-faceted
crises of our time will be solved by a simply (re)instilling the
virtues of empathy. There is no easy fix. The Care Crisis enquires
into the ways in which the continued off-loading of the cost of
care onto the shoulders of underpaid and unpaid realms of society,
untangling how this off-loading combines with commodification,
marketisation and financialisation to produce the mess we are
living in. The Care Crisis charts the current experiments in
short-term fixes to the care crisis that are taking place within
Britain, with austerity as the backdrop. It maps the economy of
abandonment, raising the question: to whom care is afforded? And
what would it mean to seriously value care?
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