Of Markets And Martyrs: Is It OK To Pay Well For Care?

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Of Markets And Martyrs: Is It OK To Pay Well For Care?

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Julie A. Nelson

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Abstract

If caring work were well paid, would it lose some of the special, emotional, interpersonal aspects we want in "real" care relationships? Some fear that the introduction of "market values" would lead to such an outcome. This article seeks to bring to light some logical fallacies and insufficiently expunged gender dualisms that may lie, unexamined, under such concerns. Examining the ways we think and talk about markets, meanings, and motivations, it argues that the foci of feminist concern should instead be the concrete structures of caregiving and the problem of under-demand.

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Article provided by Taylor and Francis Journals in its journal Feminist Economics.

Volume (Year): 5 (1999)
Issue (Month): 3 (November)
Pages: 43-59
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Nancy Folbre & Julie A. Nelson, 2000. "For Love or Money--Or Both?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 14(4), pages 123-140, Fall. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
Antigone Lyberaki, 2008. "“Deae ex Machina”: migrant women, care work and women’s employment in Greece," GreeSE â Hellenic Observatory Papers on Greece and Southeast Europe 20, Hellenic Observatory, LSE. [Downloadable!]
STAVEREN, I. van, 2005. "Five methodological approaches for research on gender and trade impacts," Working Papers - General Series 417, Institute of Social Studies. [Downloadable!]
Julie A. Nelson, . "05-04 "Rationality and Humanity: A View from Feminist Economics"," GDAE Working Papers 05-04, GDAE, Tufts University. [Downloadable!]

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