Labor
Time Poverty and Climate Shocks: How Married Women Bear the Brunt
As climate events like floods, droughts, and heatwaves intensify, their effects ripple beyond economic poverty and damage to physical assets. Emerging research sheds light on how these environmental crises impact women’s well-being. A crucial yet overlooked aspect is women’s time use, which often reflects social norms. My research dives into this vital area and reveals how climate shocks are driving married women deeper into time poverty in India.
Why Valuing Care Work is Essential for a Fairer Economy
Unpaid care work is the hidden backbone of every economy. It sustains families, facilitates paid employment, and enhances human well-being, yet remains largely unrecognized in official economic statistics. In Sri Lanka, this work is gaining attention, championed by the new Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, who emphasized its importance in her inaugural parliamentary address.
Women’s Time Use between Paid and Unpaid Work in India
Women carry out a large share of the total unpaid work which leaves them very less time to engage in paid employment in India. This work tries to understand if there is a reduction in unpaid work when women engage in paid employment.
Migrant Men in Care: Navigating Masculinity and Global Inequities
The participation of migrant men in care work challenges traditional gender norms, prompting a redefinition of masculinity as they balance both physical and emotional caregiving. This shift calls for a more inclusive understanding of care, while acknowledging the structural inequalities that continue to shape the global care economy.
Men and Care Work: Can Unions Help?
New research suggests that men in labor unions help out more at home.
Nancy Folbre: Seminar & Talk
Nancy Folbre will give a seminar on her manuscript-in-progress “Accounting for Care,” as well as public talk, entitled “Valuing Care: Time, Money, and Capabilities.” Both events will be in person at the Revaluing Care Lab at the FHI in Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106.
The Political Economy of Care
A graduate class taught by Jocelyn Olcott in the Revaluing Care Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute on sustaining households, communities, and environments. Every Wednesday from 4:40 to 7:10 pm at the Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106.
“Histories and Futures of Care”. The Fourth Global Carework Summit
5-7 June 2025, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
“Historias y futuros del cuidado”. Cuarto Encuentro Global de Trabajo de Cuidado
Desde el 5 al 7 de junio, 2025. Universidad de Duke, Durham, Carolina del Norte
“Taking care of our territories”: popular economies, community care and self-organization in Colombia
The aim of this blog post is to present some preliminary reflections on the political productivity of community care and popular economies in the Colombian context. Introducing debates around popular economy, I will refer to three concrete experiences and formulate some questions and hypothesis on the possibility of political disputes for popular economy frameworks in the contemporary scenario.
Child Care Manifesto
What comes after consciousness raising for child care workers and the families who rely on them?
Automatic Healthcare?
Regulations on “ethical” AI may fail to address larger concerns about the automation of care.