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Care and Care Workers - A Latin American Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Care and Care Workers - A Latin American Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Latin American Societies
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This book presents an original contribution to the study of care
and care work by addressing pressing issues in the field from a
Latin American and intersectional perspective. The expansion of
professional care and its impacts on public policies related to
care are global phenomena, but so far the international literature
on the subject has focused mainly on the Global North. This volume
aims to enrich this literature by presenting results of research
projects conducted in five Latin American countries - Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay -, and comparing them with
researches conducted in other countries, such as France, Japan and
the USA. Latin America is a social space where professional care
has expanded dramatically over the past twenty years. However,
unlike Japan, USA and European countries, such expansion took place
in a context of heterogeneous and poorly structured markets, in
societies which stand out for its reliance on domestic workers to
provide care work in the household as paid workers, in both formal
and informal arrangements. CareandCareWorkers: A Latin American
Perspective will be a useful tool for sociologists,
anthropologists, social workers, gerontologists and other social
scientists dedicated to the study of the growing demand for care
services worldwide, as well as to decision makers dealing with
public policies related to care services. "Society cannot function
without the unpaid (and poorly and informally paid) work of
caregivers. Having the data - and this book presents this data -
allows public policy to be based on the realities rather than on
the prejudices, habits, or structural injustices of a previous time
about gender roles, class, ethnicity, race, migrant status. (...)
This volume not only presents the data, then, but also shows how
some countries have begun to innovate to provide solutions to the
problem that some people are overburdened by care while others do
little of it. (...) Scholars and activists in Latin American
countries lead the way in showing both how resistance remains and
how to innovate. So the rest of the world has much to learn from
this volume." - Excerpt from the Foreword by Professor Joan C.
Tronto
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