Care and care workers : a Latin American perspective / Nadya Araujo Guimarães, Helena Hirata, editors.
2021
HV40.8.S63
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Title
Care and care workers : a Latin American perspective / Nadya Araujo Guimarães, Helena Hirata, editors.
ISBN
3030516938 (electronic book)
9783030516932 (electronic bk.)
303051692X
9783030516925
9783030516932 (electronic bk.)
303051692X
9783030516925
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 240 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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10.1007/978-3-030-51693-2 doi
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HV40.8.S63
Dewey Decimal Classification
361.3098
Summary
This book presents an original contribution to the study of care and care work by addressing pressing issues in the field from a Latin American and intersectional perspective. The expansion of professional care and its impacts on public policies related to care are global phenomena, but so far the international literature on the subject has focused mainly on the Global North. This volume aims to enrich this literature by presenting results of research projects conducted in five Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay, and comparing them with researches conducted in other countries, such as France, Japan and the USA. Latin America is a social space where professional care has expanded dramatically over the past twenty years. However, unlike Japan, USA and European countries, such expansion took place in a context of heterogeneous and poorly structured markets, in societies which stand out for its reliance on domestic workers to provide care work in the household as paid workers, in both formal and informal arrangements. Care and Care Workers: A Latin American Perspective will be a useful tool for sociologists, anthropologists, social workers, gerontologists and other social scientists dedicated to the study of the growing demand for care services worldwide, as well as to decision makers dealing with public policies related to care services. "Society cannot function without the unpaid (and poorly and informally paid) work of caregivers. Having the data - and this book presents this data - allows public policy to be based on the realities rather than on the prejudices, habits, or structural injustices of a previous time about gender roles, class, ethnicity, race, migrant status. (...) This volume not only presents the data, then, but also shows how some countries have begun to innovate to provide solutions to the problem that some people are overburdened by care while others do little of it. (...) Scholars and activists in Latin American countries lead the way in showing both how resistance remains and how to innovate. So the rest of the world has much to learn from this volume."--Excerpt from the Foreword by Professor Joan C. Tronto
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Latin American societies, 2730-5538
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Table of Contents
Care work. A Latin American Perspective
The Care Deficit in Latin America: structure, trends and policy approaches
The Matrix of Social Inequality, Integrated Social Protection Systems, and Care in Latin America
The Centrality of Women's Work and the Sexual and International Division of Care Labor: Brazil, France, Japan
Reimagining Care and Care Work
Care Amongst Ourselves: self-care as a therapeutic and political experience
Care, Aesthetic Creation, and Anti-Racist Reparations
The circuits of care. Reflections from the Brazilian case
Gender and Care in Uruguay: Ground Covered and Challenges to Current Policies
Social Organization of Care in Chile
Migrations and remunerated eldercare in the city of Buenos Aires. A subjective perspective
Care Work: professionalization and valuation of nurses and nursing assistants in health and old age in Colombia
Dialogues between (feminist) studies of care and (critical) disability studies to rethink emerging activisms.
The Care Deficit in Latin America: structure, trends and policy approaches
The Matrix of Social Inequality, Integrated Social Protection Systems, and Care in Latin America
The Centrality of Women's Work and the Sexual and International Division of Care Labor: Brazil, France, Japan
Reimagining Care and Care Work
Care Amongst Ourselves: self-care as a therapeutic and political experience
Care, Aesthetic Creation, and Anti-Racist Reparations
The circuits of care. Reflections from the Brazilian case
Gender and Care in Uruguay: Ground Covered and Challenges to Current Policies
Social Organization of Care in Chile
Migrations and remunerated eldercare in the city of Buenos Aires. A subjective perspective
Care Work: professionalization and valuation of nurses and nursing assistants in health and old age in Colombia
Dialogues between (feminist) studies of care and (critical) disability studies to rethink emerging activisms.