Care Talk
Mexico Lowers Age of Social Security for Women
Extending its noncontributory pension benefit, Mexico’s new program will give more spending money to women in their early 60s.
Men and Care Work: Can Unions Help?
New research suggests that men in labor unions help out more at home.
Having Children and Saving the World
Pro-natalists don’t seem to realize that “having” children requires both caring and paying for them.
Would Care Be a Gift?
Care as a gift places us all as caretakers *and* caregivers, in a reciprocity dynamic in which our autonomy is directly connected to the moments in which we were not and will not be autonomous. In this sense, care cannot be commodified nor mediated by the market as a mere product of capitalism.
Understanding the Care Economy
Why we need better data on the care economy, how we can get it, and what we could do with it.
Dreaming Big
A new year and a new grant has us imagining the next horizon for the Revaluing Care project.
Child Care Manifesto
What comes after consciousness raising for child care workers and the families who rely on them?
The Value of Valuation
Assigning a market value to non-market work can be risky, but it calls attention to the economic contributions of unpaid care.
Automatic Healthcare?
Regulations on “ethical” AI may fail to address larger concerns about the automation of care.
On the Front Lines: The Work of Nurse Practitioners in US Healthcare
The nursing profession has become one of many privatized responses to the shrinking of the US welfare state.
The New Pronatalism: Politics / Economics / Fertility / Care
Restrictive policies around contraception and sexuality aim to increase the number of unplanned pregnancies, which will expand the near-term low-wage workforce of desperate parents.
Capital for the Kids
A quick look at small moves toward a guaranteed basic income for kids in the U.S. and Canada.