Jocelyn Olcott
Working Papers Seminar Series 2024-2025
Check out our 2024-2025 WPS series. Brought to you with generous support from a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant.
Child Care Manifesto
What comes after consciousness raising for child care workers and the families who rely on them?
Resisting Gilead
The New-York Historical Society hosts an all-star lineup to discuss histories and possible futures of care.
Glass Walls and Finance Capital
Alicia Girón’s open-access book Economía de la vida offers a comparative perspective on the ways that financialized capitalism has shaped the care economy.
Bargain Hunting: Seeking Sustainable Care in a Globalized World
A recent book reckons with the “moral bargain” that provides protections for some at the expense of others.
Getting to Win-Win?: Labor Justice for Migrant Careworkers
The posts in this forum on visas for immigrant careworkers explore possibilities for policies that afford full labor protections and social inclusion for a system that serves both the providers and recipients of care.
Carework Network Summit in Costa Rica
For the first time since the Covid-19 lockdown, the Carework Network convened an in-person summit — this time with a fully bilingual gathering of academics, activists, and policymakers in San José, Costa Rica.
Care Talk 2.0
Welcome to Care Talk 2.0! In February 2008, economist Nancy Folbre launched the original Care Talk blog to reflect on research and policies regarding paid and unpaid carework. Written in a style that made material accessible to journalists, policymakers, and students as well as more seasoned researchers, the blog began with a focus on how to measure the economic contributions of unpaid care, the limitations of commercial models for care provision, and the problems that plague US systems of care provision.
Working Papers Seminar Series 2022-2023
Check out our 2022-2023 WPS series. Brought to you with generous support from Duke Humanities Unbounded.