Longstanding feminist debates about the undervaluing and exploitation of caring labour came into focus in 2020, as the Covid pandemic closed schools and workplaces across the globe, and placed the lowest paid care workers on the frontlines of harm.
Longstanding feminist debates about the undervaluing and exploitation of caring labour came into focus in 2020, as the Covid pandemic closed schools and workplaces across the globe, and placed the lowest paid care workers on the frontlines of harm. This renewed and amplified interest in the politics, economics and social repercussions of care has moved beyond critique to alternatives conceptions of how care should be centred and interdependence celebrated.
Longstanding feminist debates about the undervaluing and exploitation of caring labour came into focus in 2020, as the Covid pandemic closed schools and workplaces across the globe, and placed the lowest paid care workers on the frontlines of harm. This renewed and amplified interest in the politics, economics and social repercussions of care has moved beyond critique to alternatives conceptions of how care should be centred and interdependence celebrated.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
8th International Conference on History of Medicine in Southeast Asia
(HOMSEA 2019)
To be held at the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine,
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong HKSAR
12-14 December 2019
http://www.chm.hku.hk/HOMSEA_2019.html
I am interested in union demands for child care, particularly before the Second World War. The common wisdom seems to be that such attention began during the war. As one source puts it: "Union interest in child care effectively began during World War II when many women entered the labor force. In support of the war effort, the AFL and CIO espoused federal funding of community based child care services, equal pay for equal work, maternity leave without loss of seniority, and unionization of woman workers....
