From Crisis to Catastrophe: Care, Covid, and Pathways to Change

The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around the world, and the effect of the devaluation of care on workers, families, and communities. In this volume, a diverse group of care scholars bring their expertise to bear on this recent crisis. In doing so, they consider the ways in which the existing social organization of care in different countries around the globe amplified or mitigated the impact of COVID. They also explore the global pandemic's impact on the conditions of care and its role in exacerbating deeply rooted gender, race, migration, disability, and other forms of inequality.

Author: Mignon Duffy
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 05/12/2023
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781978828568
ISBN10: 197882856X
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Disease & Health Issues
- Medical | Health Care Delivery
- Medical | Health Policy

About the Author

MIGNON DUFFY is an associate professor and chair of the sociology department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her scholarship is focused on the intersections of paid care work with gender, race, citizenship, and class inequalities. Her book, Making Care Count: A Century of Gender, Race and Paid Care Work, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2011.

AMY ARMENIA is a professor and chair of sociology at Rollins College. She has published work on child care, care work, and family leave in Work and Occupations, the Journal of Family Issues, and Social Science Research. She is the coeditor of Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work (Rutgers University Press, 2015).

KIM PRICE-GLYNN is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. She is the author of Strip Club: Gender, Power, and Sex Work (2010).