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Making Care Count - A Century of Gender, Race and Paid Care Work (Hardcover, New)
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Making Care Count - A Century of Gender, Race and Paid Care Work (Hardcover, New)
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There are fundamental tasks common to every society: children have
to be raised, homes need to be cleaned, meals need to be prepared,
and people who are elderly, ill, or disabled need care. Day in, day
out, these responsibilities can involve both monotonous drudgery
and untold rewards for those performing them, whether they are
family members, friends, or paid workers. These are jobs that
cannot be outsourced, because they involve the most intimate spaces
of our everyday lives--our homes, our bodies, and our families.
Mignon Duffy uses a historical and comparative approach to examine
and critique the entire twentieth-century history of paid care
work--including health care, education and child care, and social
services--drawing on an in-depth analysis of U.S. Census data as
well as a range of occupational histories. 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.
Debunking popular understandings of how we came to be in a ""care
crisis,"" this book stands apart as an historical quantitative
study in a literature crowded with contemporary, qualitative
studies, proposing well-developed policy approaches that grow out
of the theoretical and empirical arguments.
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