LABR 2P86 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pricewaterhousecoopers, Industrial Revolution, Intellectual Disability
18 May 2016
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Work performed that provides a different care or support to another person who is considered to be a dependent. Generally, care work done on behalf of the young, the elderly, the sick, the dying, and people with various physical and intellectual disabilities. It is work a paid job (though is often unpaid) As daughters, mothers, partners, friends, or as volunteers, women are the overwhelming majority of unpaid primary caregivers and spend more time in providing care: historically more likely than men to do personal care and offer emotional support. Increasingly a form of paid labour outside of the family. Historically, care work performed by the entire family. With industrial revolution and rise of male breadwinner model, increasingly performed by women (wife/mother). Highly gendered upward of 90% of care work performed by women. Highly radicalized a large proportion of those providing care work are racialized women. Requires time, skills & resources and may not always be voluntary.
