Care Work: Gender, Labor, and the Welfare State

Type Book Editor Madonna Harrington Meyer Place New York Publisher Routledge ISBN 978-0-415-92542-6 Date July 15, 2000 Library Catalog Amazon Language English Abstract 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. Short Title Care Work # of Pages 432