Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2001
ISSN
0009-3599
Publisher
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Abstract
A fantastic amount of activity is brewing around the subject of care work-meeting the needs of children, the elderly, the sick, or the disabled. The family, which has been the primary repository of care responsibilities, has gone through an irreversible transformation in terms of expectations, aspirations, conduct, stability, composition, and abilities. These changes raise questions about the efficacy of assigning care solely to the family, and they also bring to light several kinds of persistent justice problems raised by that allocation. As the roles and expectations of both men and women have evolved in the family, in the workforce, and in civic life, the institutional arrangements that have dominated care work for the past century have proved themselves to be in need of significant re-envisioning.
Recommended Citation
Katharine B. Silbaugh,
Foreword: The Structures of Care Work
,
76
Chicago-Kent Law Review
1389
(2001).
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