Care Work: Gender, Labor, and the Welfare State

Madonna Harrington Meyer

Routledge Press, December 2000

Madonna Harrington Meyer

Sociology Department

Aging Studies Institute

Center for Policy Research

Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health

Gender and Sex

Routledge Press

Care Work: Gender, Labor, and the Welfare State

"Care Work" is a collection of original essays on the complexities of providing care. These essays emphasize how social policies intersect with gender, race, and class to alternately compel women to perform care work and to constrain their ability to do so. Leading international scholars from a range of disciplines provide a groundbreaking analysis of the work of caring in the context of the family, the market, and the welfare state.