Care Work

Care Work is a collection of original essays on the complexities of providing care. These essays emphasize how social policies intersect with gender, race, and class to alternately compel women to perform care work and to constrain their ability to do so. Leading international scholars from a range of disciplines provide a groundbreaking analysis of the work of caring in the context of the family, the market, and the welfare state.

Madonna Harrington Meyer is Associate Professor of Sociology, and Senior Research Associate, at the Center for Policy Research, at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on old age policy in the United States and appears in such journals as the American SociologicalReview, Journal of Health and Social Policy, Gender andSociety, and Social Problems

1. Introduction: The Right to - or not to - Care. - Madonna Harrington Meyer, Pam Herd, and Sonya Michel Part I Gendering Care Work 2. A Historical Perspective on Care. - Emily Abel 3. The History of Men's Caring: Evaluating Precedents for Fathers' Family Involvement. - Scott Coltrane and Justin Galt 4. Claiming the Right to Care. - Sonya Michel The Impact of Social Activism on Gender Identity and Care Work: Women's Activism in the Toxic Waste Movement. - Ann Herda-Rapp Part II Public Markets/Private Caring 6. Cash in Care. - Clare Ungerson 7. Care as We Give it, Work as We Know it - Deborah A. Stone 8. The Conflicts of Caring: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Individualism in Family Day Care Work. - Mary Tuominen 9. Paid Emotional Care: Organizing Forms that Encourage Nurturance. - Francesca Cancian 10. The International Division of Caring and Cleaning Work: Transnational Connections or Apartheid Exclusions? - Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Part III Welfare States: Unstable Supports? 11. Examining Care at Welfare's End. - Stacey Oliker 12. Paying for Care: Child Support Policy in the United States - Demie Kurz 13. Filling in the Gaps in Long Term Care Insurance: Policy Implications for Informal Care Providers. - Jennifer Mellor 14. Shifting the Burden Back to Families? How Medicaid Cost-Containment Reshapes Access to Long Term Care in the U.S. - Madonna Harrington Meyer Part IV Organizing and Reorganizing Care Work 15. Marketization and the Struggling Logics of (Home) Care in The Netherlands. - Trudie Knijn 16. Disability Reform and Women's Caring Work. - Rannveig Traustadottir 17. Making a Way Outta No Way: Grandparenting Cocaine Exposed Grandchildren. - Assata Zerai 18. Hope for the Children: Creating a Community of Care for Foster Children. - Brenda Krause Eheart and Martha Bowman Power