The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around the world, and the effect of the devaluation of care on workers, families, and communities. In this volume, a diverse group of care scholars bring their expertise to bear on this recent crisis. In doing so, they consider the ways in which the existing social organization of care in different countries around the globe amplified or mitigated the impact of COVID. They also explore the global pandemic's impact on the conditions of care and
its role in exacerbating deeply rooted gender, race, migration, disability, and other forms of inequality.
Contributions by:
Joan C. Tronto,
Juliana Martínez Franzoni
Edited by:
Mignon Duffy,
Amy Armenia,
Kim Price-Glynn
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 54g
ISBN: 9781978828568
ISBN 10: 197882856X
Series: Carework in a Changing World
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 12 May 2023
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN PART ONE Crisis 1 Beyond Wealth-Care: Pandemic Dreams for a Just and Caring Future JOAN C. TRONTO 2 Latin America’s Response to COVID-19: The Risk of Sealing an Unequal Care Regime JULIANA MARTÍNEZ FRANZONI ANDVEENA SIDDHARTH 3 COVID-19, Global Care, and Migration ITO PENG 4 Black Lives Matter: Structural Racism, Sexism, and Carework in the United States ODICHINMA AKOSIONU, JANETTE DILL, MIGNON DUFFY, AND J’MAG KARBEAH 5 Disability, Ableism, and Care during COVID-19 in the United States LAURA MAULDIN 6 Unpaid Care in Public Places: Tensions in the Time of COVID-19 PAT ARMSTRONG AND JANNA KLOSTERMANN PART TWO Catastrophe 7 The Right to Care at Stake: The Syndemic Emergency in Latin America MARÍA NIEVES RICO AND LAURA C. PAUTASSI 8 At the Crossroads of the Employment and the Care Crises: Care Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic VALERIA ESQUIVEL 9 Caring for Children and the Economy: The Uneven Effects of the Pandemic on Childcare Workers, Primary School Teachers, and Unpaid Caregivers PILAR GONALONS-PONS AND JOHANNA S. QUINN 10 COVID-19 and Care for the Elderly People in Africa: An Analysis of South Africa’s Mitigation Measures ZITHA MOKOMANE AND AMEETA JAGA 11 Transnational Family Caregiving during a Global Pandemic KEN CHIH-YAN SUN PART THREE Aftermath 12 Cheap Praise: Supplemental Pay for Essential Workers in the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic FRANZISKA DORN, NANCY FOLBRE, LEILA GAUTHAM, AND MARTHA MACDONALD 13 Migrants in Europe’s Domestic and Care Sector: The Institutional Response SABRINA MARCHETTI AND MERITA MESIÄISLEHTO 14 Budgeting Care Services during the COVID-19 Crisis ORLY BENJAMIN 15 Policy, Culture, and COVID-19: European Childcare Policies during the Pandemic THURID EGGERS, CHRISTOPHER GRAGES, AND BIRGIT PFAU-EFFINGER PART FOUR Transformation 16 Exposing Fault Lines, Flaring Tensions, and the Need for New Alliances: Home Care in the Time of COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada CYNTHIA J. CRANFORD 17 End-of-Life Considerations during COVID-19 CINDY L. CAIN 18 COVID-19 and the Rise of the Care Robots HELEN DICKINSON AND CATHERINE SMITH 19 Challenging Gender Regimes through Employee Voice in Carework KATHERINE RAVENSWOOD 20 Building a Care Infrastructure in the United States JULIE KASHEN Epilogue: Care in Crisis: Convergences and Divergences MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN Acknowledgments References Notes on Contributors Index
MIGNON DUFFY is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts - Lowell. Her scholarship is focused on the intersections of paid care work with gender, race, citizenship, and class inequalities. She was co-editor of Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work (Rutgers University Press, 2015) and author of Making Care Count: A Century of Gender, Race and Paid Care Work (Rutgers University Press, 2011). AMY ARMENIA is Professor of sociology at Rollins College. She has published work on child care, care work, and family leave in Work and Occupations, the Journal of Family Issues, and Social Science Research. She was co-editor of Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work (Rutgers University Press, 2015). KIM PRICE-GLYNN is Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her research addresses gender, paid and unpaid care work. She has published in Gender & Society; Gender, Work & Organization; and Work, Employment & Society. She is author of Strip Club: Gender, Power, and Sex Work (New York University Press, 2010).
Reviews for From Crisis to Catastrophe: Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change
"""The editors of From Crisis to Catastrophe are three of the most important scholars of care work in the 21st century. In this book they bring together scholars from many regions across the globe, whose work has the potential to identify key strategies to create a safer, healthier, and more just economy."" -- Joya Misra * coauthor of The New Handbook of Political Sociology * “From Crisis to Catastrophe is a very timely book, focusing on two topics that have received great attention recently: care and COVID-19. The editors, scholars specialized in the topic, have gathered a group of outstanding experts from multiple institutions and countries to address this new phenomenon.” -- Camila Arza * research fellow at National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina *"
