Mignon Duffy

Making Care Count

A Century of Gender, Race, and Paid Care Work

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 285g
• ISBN-13: 9780813549613
• ISBN-10: 0813549612
• Artikelnr.: 32738157

Autorenporträt

Mignon Duffy is an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty associate of the Center for Women and Work at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Conceptualizing Care
Chapter 2: Domestic Workers: Many Hands, Heavy Work
Chapter 3: Transforming Nurturance, Creating Expert Care
Chapter 4: Managing Nurturant Care in the New Economy
Chapter 5: Doing the Dirty Work
Chapter 6: Making Care Count
Appendix: Data and Methods
Notes
Index