Making care count
Subtitle: a century of gender, race, and paid care work
By: Mignon Duffy
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780813549606; 9780813549613
Subjects: Service industries workers; Household employees; Sexual division of labor; Social service; Caregivers
Description: Use of historical and comparative approach to examine and critique the development of paid care work in the twentieth-century including health care, education and child care, and social services.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Conceptualizing care; title: Domestic workers: many hands, heavy work; title: Transforming nurturance, creating expert care; title: Managing nurturant care in the new economy; title: Doing the dirty work; title: Making care count.