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“It Shouldn't Have to Be A Trade”: Recognition and Redistribution in Care Work Advocacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Cameron Lynne Macdonald  and
David A. Merrill
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Abstract

Care work straddles the divide between activities performed out of love and those performed for pay. The tensions created for workers by this divide raise questions concerning connections between recognition and redistribution. Through an analysis of mobilization among childcare workers, we argue that care workers can address redistribution and recognition simultaneously through vocabularies of both skill and virtue. We conclude with a discussion of strategies to overcome the false dichotomy between recognition and redistribution.

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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Love and Work , Spring 2002 , pp. 67 - 83
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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