Social Care

Cooperatives and Care

28 October 2025

The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online seminar on Cooperatives and Care, exploring the social and cultural role of cooperative organizations in revaluing care and labor. Wednesday, November 5, 2025 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET, online.

Taxing the Top

21 October 2025

As the distribution of both wealth and income has become unequal, political efforts to tax the top to finance investment in public goods like childcare have gained traction.

Back to the Future? Women’s Work and Care in Argentina

3 October 2025

In Argentina, the Milei government’s austerity agenda has dismantled the fragile infrastructures that sustain everyday life. Cuts to care programs and gender institutions have shifted social reproduction back onto women’s unpaid labor. The article traces how this erosion of care undermines both equality and democracy.

Book Conversation with Emma Amador

Join us for a conversation between historians Emma Amador and Cecilia Márquez. Drawing from her new book The Politics of Care Work (Duke University Press), Amador will explore how Puerto Rican women organized for social and economic justice through care work, both on the island and in the continental U.S., from the early 20th century to the present.

Reproductive Justice and Economics

22 September 2025

The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online seminar on Reproductive Justice and Economics, exploring how feminist economic frameworks can center reproductive justice as a core research paradigm. Wednesday, October 1, 2025 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET, online.

The First 1,000 Days of Life Are the Real National Security

18 September 2025

What if early childhood care is the key to preventing violent conflicts?

Care Conversation with Lina-María Murillo

Join us for a conversation between historians Lina-María Murillo and Sarah Deutsch. Drawing from her new book “Fighting for Control” (UNC Press), Murillo will explore the long arc of reproductive justice organizing in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands and the cross-border practices of care and resistance that continue to shape it.

Gender-Equitable Growth

26 August 2025

The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online seminar on Gender-Equitable Growth, examining how social reproduction shapes U.S. state-level economic outcomes. Wednesday, September 24, 2025 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET, online.

Women’s Work and Care in Argentina

25 August 2025

The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project opens its Fall 2025 Working Papers Seminar Series with an online seminar on women’s work and care in Argentina, exploring how labor and care have been reshaped in the neoliberal era. Wednesday, September 17, 2025 · 5:30–7:00 PM ET, online.

Is it Love and Unpaid Work? Variations on an Emerging Profession in the Popular Care Economy

17 June 2025

Argentina’s popular care economy reopens questions about knowledge and labor “from below”, as well as their economic, political, and societal valorization in processes of professionalization.

Tejiendo desbordes para continuar cuidando: el caso de los comedores populares de Lima, Perú

Las mujeres de los comedores populares generan diversas formas de agencia conscientes o no, feministas explícitas o no, para asegurar directa e indirectamente el cuidado. Se trata de un ejercicio de desborde constante del Estado desde lo cotidiano y, a través de relaciones de cooperación y/o confrontación con el Estado.

Governance of “Care” as an Urban Resource?

30 March 2025

Care-full Municipalism offers a theoretical and policy vision for rethinking urban governance in ways that prioritize life-making over profit-making, sustainability over extraction, and collective responsibility over individual burdens.