Making Care Count: A Century of Gender, Race, and Paid Care Work
By Mignon Duffy.
Description
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 cri...
ISBN(s)
0813549612, 9780813549613
