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Forced to Care

Forced to Care


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About the Book

The United States faces a growing crisis in care. The number of people needing care is growing while the ranks of traditional caregivers have shrunk. The status of care workers is a critical concern.

Evelyn Nakano Glenn offers an innovative interpretation of care labor in the United States by tracing the roots of inequity along two interconnected strands: unpaid caring within the family; and slavery, indenture, and other forms of coerced labor. By bringing both into the same analytic framework, she provides a convincing explanation of the devaluation of care work and the exclusion of both unpaid and paid care workers from critical rights such as minimum wage, retirement benefits, and workers' compensation. Glenn reveals how assumptions about gender, family, home, civilization, and citizenship have shaped the development of care labor and been incorporated into law and social policies. She exposes the underlying systems of control that have resulted in women--especially immigrants and women of color--performing a disproportionate share of caring labor. Finally, she examines strategies for improving the situation of unpaid family caregivers and paid home healthcare workers.

This important and timely book illuminates the source of contradictions between American beliefs about the value and importance of caring in a good society and the exploitation and devalued status of those who actually do the caring.


About the Author: Evelyn Nakano Glenn is Professor of Women's Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780674064157
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 388 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0674064151
  • Publisher Date: 29 May 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 262
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Coercion and Caregiving in America
  • Width: 150 mm


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