Social Care

Demanda por el reconocimiento del cuidado como Derecho Humano

9 March 2024

La sociedad civil se pronuncia sobre la petición del gobierno argentino a la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, que escuchará los argumentos del caso esta semana en el tribunal de San José, Costa Rica.

Demanding Care as a Human Right 

9 March 2024

Civil society weighs in on the Argentine government’s petition to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which will hear arguments in the case this week at the tribunal in San José, Costa Rica.

The Massachusetts Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

21 August 2015

Guest post by Laura Sylvester, graduate student at the Center for Public Policy and Administration and the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Laura drafted the initial version of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and has been actively involved in organizing and advocating for its passage for the past 18 months.

Work for Profit (or Not)

20 August 2015

Most introductory economics texts assume that most of the work performed in the U.S. takes place in profit-maximizing firms. One important exception is Understanding Capitalism.

The Best Care Work Reporting of the Year

27 June 2015

The British newspaper famous for its courageous investigative journalism on many different fronts wins my prize for the best reporting of the year on paid care work.

Care and the Great Transition

18 June 2015

Because I think there are fundamental similarities between care and ecological services, I look for opportunities for dialogue with environmental researchers and activists.

What is Care?

23 February 2008

My all-time favorite popularization of care issues is the comic book Adventures of Carrie Giver, but I think there’s a serious problem with this proposal as it now stands