From Crisis to Catastrophe

Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change
Considers the ways in which the existing social organization of care in different countries around the globe amplified or mitigated the impact of COVID-19. The book also explores the impact of the global pandemic on the conditions of care and its role in exacerbating deeply rooted gender, race, migration, disability, and other forms of inequality.
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.

Contributor: Mignon Duffy (Edited by), Kim Price-Glynn (Edited by), Amy Armenia (Edited by), Johanna S. Quinn (Contributions by), Ken Chih-Yan Sun (Contributions by), Christopher Grages (Contributions by), Ito Peng (Contributions by), Leila Gautham (Contributions by), J'Mag Karbeah (Contributions by), Joan C. Tronto (Contributions by), Merita Mesiäislehto (Contributions by), Veena Siddharth (Contributions by), Nancy Folbre (Contributions by), Sabrina Marchetti (Contributions by), Laura Pautassi (Contributions by), Cynthia J. Cranford (Contributions by), Janette S. Dill (Contributions by), Catherine Smith (Contributions by), Pat Armstrong (Contributions by), Thurid Eggers (Contributions by), Birgit Pfau-Effinger (Contributions by), Odichinma Akosionu (Contributions by), Laura Mauldin (Contributions by), Orly Benjamin (Contributions by), María Nieves Rico (Contributions by), Pilar Gonalons-Pons (Contributions by), Helen Dickinson (Contributions by), Ameeta Jaga (Contributions by), Julie Kashen (Contributions by), Valeria Esquivel (Contributions by), Cindy L. Cain (Contributions by), Katherine Ravenswood (Contributions by), Janna Klostermann (Contributions by), Martha MacDonald (Contributions by), Zitha Mokomane (Contributions by), Juliana Martínez Franzoni (Contributions by), Franziska Dorn (Contributions by)

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