MIGNON DUFFY is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts - Lowell. Her scholarship is focused on the intersections of paid care work with gender, race, citizenship, and class inequalities. She was co-editor of Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work (Rutgers University Press, 2015) and author of Making Care Count: A Century of Gender, Race and Paid Care Work (Rutgers University Press, 2011).

AMY ARMENIA is Professor 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 was co-editor of Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work (Rutgers University Press, 2015).

KIM PRICE-GLYNN is Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her research addresses gender, paid and unpaid care work. She has published in Gender & Society; Gender, Work & Organization; and Work, Employment & Society. She is author of Strip Club: Gender, Power, and Sex Work (New York University Press, 2010).

Introduction

MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN

PART ONE Crisis

1 Beyond Wealth-Care: Pandemic Dreams for a Just and Caring Future

JOAN C. TRONTO

2 Latin America's Response to COVID-19: The Risk of Sealing an Unequal Care Regime

JULIANA MARTÍNEZ FRANZONI ANDVEENA SIDDHARTH

3 COVID-19, Global Care, and Migration

ITO PENG

4 Black Lives Matter: Structural Racism, Sexism, and Carework in the United States

ODICHINMA AKOSIONU, JANETTE DILL, MIGNON DUFFY, AND J'MAG KARBEAH

5 Disability, Ableism, and Care during COVID-19 in the United States

LAURA MAULDIN

6 Unpaid Care in Public Places: Tensions in the Time of COVID-19

PAT ARMSTRONG AND JANNA KLOSTERMANN

PART TWO Catastrophe

7 The Right to Care at Stake: The Syndemic Emergency in Latin America

MARÍA NIEVES RICO AND LAURA C. PAUTASSI

8 At the Crossroads of the Employment and the Care

Crises: Care Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

VALERIA ESQUIVEL

9 Caring for Children and the Economy: The Uneven Effects of the Pandemic on Childcare Workers, Primary School Teachers, and Unpaid Caregivers

PILAR GONALONS-PONS AND JOHANNA S. QUINN

10 COVID-19 and Care for the Elderly People in Africa: An Analysis of South Africa's Mitigation Measures

ZITHA MOKOMANE AND AMEETA JAGA

11 Transnational Family Caregiving during a Global Pandemic

KEN CHIH-YAN SUN

PART THREE Aftermath

12 Cheap Praise: Supplemental Pay for Essential Workers in the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic

FRANZISKA DORN, NANCY FOLBRE, LEILA GAUTHAM, AND MARTHA MACDONALD

13 Migrants in Europe's Domestic and Care Sector: The Institutional Response

SABRINA MARCHETTI AND MERITA MESIÄISLEHTO

14 Budgeting Care Services during the COVID-19 Crisis

ORLY BENJAMIN

15 Policy, Culture, and COVID-19: European Childcare Policies during the Pandemic

THURID EGGERS, CHRISTOPHER GRAGES, AND BIRGIT PFAU-EFFINGER

PART FOUR Transformation

16 Exposing Fault Lines, Flaring Tensions, and the Need for New Alliances: Home Care in the Time of COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada

CYNTHIA J. CRANFORD

17 End-of-Life Considerations during COVID-19

CINDY L. CAIN

18 COVID-19 and the Rise of the Care Robots

HELEN DICKINSON AND CATHERINE SMITH

19 Challenging Gender Regimes through Employee Voice in Carework

KATHERINE RAVENSWOOD

20 Building a Care Infrastructure in the United States

JULIE KASHEN

Epilogue: Care in Crisis: Convergences and Divergences

MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN

Acknowledgments

References

Notes on Contributors

Index