The Social Division of Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11228822 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Fine (0000-0003-4285-7099, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 137-149 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0157-6321 • E-ISSN: 1839-4655 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/j.1839-4655.2007.tb00045.x |
| OpenAlex | W2279847722 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 26 |
In Australia, as in most developed economies, care has now ‘gone public’. It is no longer solely a private, familial concern that can be automatically assigned to women to be undertaken without pay. Nor is it contained in residential institutions or bureaucratic hierarchies. In this paper I consider what is emerging in its place ‐ the ‘care deficit’ and the new social divisions of care, in which paid care is assuming an ever more important place as a result of significant developments in both social policy and in market‐based provisions, especially the expansion of corporate care. Linking recent care theory with the need for a program of empirical research, the paper first considers the lack of consensus on the character and meaning of care, as seen from a number of different theoretical standpoints. Despite important differences in the perspectives on care, common features suggest that there are sound reasons to develop research concepts and tools that would help create the dialogue and sharing of ideas that a more mature field of research and practice requires. A starting point for this is the attempt to demark a clear definition of care. Building on this, I propose the development and use of a broad perspective, which I have termed the social division of care, to provide a joint framework for data collection and for monitoring the changing balances of responsibility for providing care
Bureaucracy · Division of labour · Field (mathematics · Health care · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Project commissioning · Public relations · Publishing · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Law · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Conceptualising care
Realizing autonomy
Sustaining Low Pay in Aged Care Work
A Multilevel Framework for Effective Interagency Collaboration in Mental Health
Working Across Borders
The right to care? Social citizenship and care poverty in developed welfare states
Formal and Informal Long-Term Care in the Community
The good death and the institutionalisation of dying
The Work/Life Collision
In a Different Voice
A caring society? Care and the dilemmas of human service in the 21st century
The Invisible Heart
Citizenship and the Ethics of Care
Who Cares Wins? Women, Caring and Disability
Commodified care work in European Labour Markets
Some Reflections and Agendas for the Future
The Culture of Politics
Trends in informal care in Great Britain during the 1990s
Impairment and Disability
Caring about carers
Renewing the Social Vision of Care
Relying on informal care in the new century? Informal care for elderly people in England to 2031
Illness and the role of the physician
In and beyond New Labour
De-Constructing Concepts of Care
The Concept of Caring in Feminist Research
Men
When Does Gender Trump Money? Bargaining and Time in Household Work
Care as a Good for Social Policy
Community Care and the Family
| Citations per year | 0.63 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |