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40201 - Diverse Perspectives on Care Work

Mon, August 11, 8:00 to 9:30am, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: Lobby Level/Green, Plaza Ballroom A

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This session brings together five studies spanning diverse care recipients, providers, methods, and geographies. Transporting us to the United States, China, and Pakistan, panelists explore the care that bookends the life course for us all—as children and elders—completed day in and day out by parents, grandmothers and other relatives, adult children, and paid caregivers. This research highlights both what has stayed the same and what is evolving about the nature of care. Presenters underscore the enduring reality that care work is vital yet still undervalued. Although the contours of care vary, two features remain constant: women do most of this crucial labor for no or meager pay. And these scholars shed new light on the intersections of care work with migration, outsourcing, neoliberalism, and social inequalities.

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