Caring on the Clock: Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work

Duffy, Mignon; Armenia, Amy; Stacey, Clare L.

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“…Rapidly developing private care markets are shaping new and shifting divisions and inequalities in the work of care (Brennan et al, 2012); state welfare systems increasingly 'outsource' the caring labour they require, relying more on private companies , and sometimes draw significantly on 'precarious' labour (Yeates, 2009;Standing, 2009;Bettio and Verashchagina, 2012;Duffy et al, 2015); in many areas of the world families are now arranging, and privately purchasing, caring labour to support their members when support needs arise. The markets on which they draw may be mainly regulated and formal (as, for example, in Germany, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan) or have informal and undocumented dimensions (as in some Mediterranean countries).…”

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Care and caring: interdisciplinary perspectives on a societal issue of global significance

Yeandle

Chou

Fine

et al. 2017

International Journal of Care and Caring

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IntroductionThe International Journal of Care and Caring (IJCC) commences publication with the present issue. In this opening editorial article we set out our vision for the new journal, which -as we will show -creates a timely and significant new space for critical engagement with global scholarship, policy and practice on care and caring. The article has three aims: to describe what will be distinctive and different about the International Journal of Care and Caring; to highlight our ambitions for it, including our determination that the new journal will have genuine global reach and international impact; and to explore some of the many different dimensions of research, scholarship and debate on care and caring which we hope to see further explored and developed in future issues of IJCC.As members of IJCC's Editorial Team, each of us has contributed to the founding concept for the journal, described here. We have been guided in this by our shared conviction that care and caring is a topic of huge and growing importance. We are persuaded, too, that within care and caring there is scope for significant theoretical and empirical development, and a real need for a new journal in which international scholarly debate on care and caring, based in sound research and scholarly endeavour, can emerge and thrive. We also believe that robust evidence and scholarship have the capacity to influence policy, practice and public discourse about care and caring, and in so doing to shape a more positive lived reality of caring relations and contexts around the world. 2These convictions underpin the vital and challenging agenda which lies before scholars and other researchers in the field of care and caring, in whichever part of the globe they and their studies are located. As we will explain, care and caring are central to human life and relations; associated with a wide range of emotions (spanning, for example, grief to joy, patience to exasperation, fear to security; and living and dying); and also -especially as the capacity to extend and save lives increases -have profound implications for the distribution of human, economic and other resources, in global, national and local contexts.Together we have sought international support for the idea of a new journal on care and caring across multiple disciplines, bringing the International Journal of Care and Caring to fruition as a new journal of the Policy Press. Giving it their strong support, distinguished scholars from diverse disciplines have highlighted the unique contribution IJCC can make, describing it as 'long overdue', 'exciting', 'timely and significant', and as a development which will 'bring a new level of scholarship and attention to issues facing our humanity for the future'. They also highlight its capacity to provide 'an important international and interdisciplinary evidence base'; to become 'essential reading' for 'academics, policy makers and practitioners interested in the complexities and nuances of care and caring'; and to 'create new synergies for the rising ...

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Care and caring: interdisciplinary perspectives on a societal issue of global significance

Yeandle

Chou

Fine

et al. 2017

International Journal of Care and Caring

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“…Broadly, paid care work includes occupations performed in private households and labor markets that provide the social reproductive labor necessary for maintaining the physical, mental, social, and/or emotional needs and well‐being of recipients (Duffy , ; England ; Folbre ; Glenn , ). These occupations vary in degree of interactional and credentialing requirements (Budig, Hodges, and England ; Duffy, Albelda, and Hammonds ; Duffy, Armenia, and Stacey ; Dwyer ; England ; Folbre ). Nurturant care involves face‐to‐face services attending to the physical health and safety or the physical, cognitive, or emotional skills of recipients (England, Budig, and Folbre ; England and Folbre ; Folbre ), including health aides, childcare providers, and dental assistants.…”

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“…Nurturant care involves face‐to‐face services attending to the physical health and safety or the physical, cognitive, or emotional skills of recipients (England, Budig, and Folbre ; England and Folbre ; Folbre ), including health aides, childcare providers, and dental assistants. Non‐nurturant care (Duffy et al ; Duffy et al ) includes impersonal services necessary for maintaining the personal and physical needs of the labor force (Duffy et al ; Duffy et al ; Dwyer ; Folbre ), such as domestic, janitorial, and food service work. Though socially necessary, working‐class care jobs vary in quality: non‐nurturant occupations often have lower entry barriers and more “bad job” characteristics (Dill ; Kalleberg ), such as lower pay, unstable hours, and fewer benefits, relative to other work (Budig et al ; Duffy et al ; Dwyer ; Folbre , ).…”

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“…Non‐nurturant care (Duffy et al ; Duffy et al ) includes impersonal services necessary for maintaining the personal and physical needs of the labor force (Duffy et al ; Duffy et al ; Dwyer ; Folbre ), such as domestic, janitorial, and food service work. Though socially necessary, working‐class care jobs vary in quality: non‐nurturant occupations often have lower entry barriers and more “bad job” characteristics (Dill ; Kalleberg ), such as lower pay, unstable hours, and fewer benefits, relative to other work (Budig et al ; Duffy et al ; Dwyer ; Folbre , ). Paid care work is also stratified by gender and race: women, workers of color, and immigrants have historically and continue to be over‐represented in lower paid, more onerous care work (Branch ; Branch and Hanley ; Duffy , , ; Duffy et al ; Glenn , ; Stainbeck and Tomaskovic‐Devey ; Yavorsky, Cohen, and Qian ).…”

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“…Though socially necessary, working‐class care jobs vary in quality: non‐nurturant occupations often have lower entry barriers and more “bad job” characteristics (Dill ; Kalleberg ), such as lower pay, unstable hours, and fewer benefits, relative to other work (Budig et al ; Duffy et al ; Dwyer ; Folbre , ). Paid care work is also stratified by gender and race: women, workers of color, and immigrants have historically and continue to be over‐represented in lower paid, more onerous care work (Branch ; Branch and Hanley ; Duffy , , ; Duffy et al ; Glenn , ; Stainbeck and Tomaskovic‐Devey ; Yavorsky, Cohen, and Qian ). Although a large body of scholarship has identified paid care work as a primary nexus of gender and racial labor market disadvantage, the mechanisms explaining these well‐documented patterns have not yet been fully disentangled.…”

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Care and caring: interdisciplinary perspectives on a societal issue of global significance

Care and caring: interdisciplinary perspectives on a societal issue of global significance

Intersections on the Class Escalator: Gender, Race, and Occupational Segregation in Paid Care Work

Insecure infrastructures: The affects and effects of violence in Mexico's food system

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