Price: $39.95
Page Count: 300
Publication Date: December 2026
ISBN: 978-1-77258-600-8
These international and interdisciplinary essays can inform strategies to care our way through the many crises slapping us in the face. I love their moral commitment and methodological diversity.
- Nancy Folbre, Professor emerita of economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
This collection offers an expansive understanding of the concepts of care and care work and why care work should be valued and recognized for its contribution to the health and well being of individuals, communities, societies and the overall planet. This scholarship on care work highlights the need to go beyond individual responsibility for caring for others to a collective social and global response. Examples from the collection include a focus on environmental activism with care of the planet; family centered policies; kinship care; inequities in formal and informal care work; caregiving at end of life; and measuring activities of care to inform policies and programs.
- Genevieve Currie, RN, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Nursing, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Co-Editor and author of From mother to caregiver: Mothering children with lifelong care needs across the life course.
Foreword
Olivier De Schutter
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Emily Wolfinger and Amanda Watson
Grassroots Carecraft
1
Flipping the Meaning of Care: Activist Mothers’ Strategic Use of Family Support and Resource Centers in South Korea
Junghun Oh
2
Co-working with On-site Childcare Hubs: Creating Caring Infrastructures in Uncaring Times
Jenna Condie and Sarah O’Carrigan
3
Climate Activism and the Mobilization of Care in Times of Crisis
Romina Rodela
4
Picturing the Practicalities of Care: Using Feminist Picturebooks to Teach Care as Part of “Feminist Approaches to Children’s Mental Health”
Shoshana Magnet and Farinaz Basmechi
Social Cost of Policies Devaluing Care
5
The Paradox of Quebec’s Family Policy: Supporting Work, Overlooking Care
Sophie Mathieu
6
“I Don’t Need to Be a Professional, but I Want to Be Treated Professionally”: Carer Perspectives on Working with Australia’s Most Vulnerable Children
Deb Tsborasis, Imogen Gerraty and Emma D’Agostino
7
Rooted in Care: Refugee and Immigrant Women’s Labour in the Shadows of Settlement
Yusra Qadir
8
Smile from your Heart: The Emotional and Affective Labour of Racialized Migrant and Immigrant Women in Canada
Catherine Bryan and Temitope Abiagom
9
Compassionate Communities and Gender: Valuing and Supporting Caring at End-of-Life
Peta Hinton, Rosemary Leonard and Joy Paton
A Feminist Care Economy
10
Beyond the Enclosure of Care: Reclaiming the Commons for People and Planet
Alex Baumann and Emily Wolfinger
11
Measuring a Care Economy in Crisis
Lucie Prewitt, Pilar McDonald, Misty Heggeness and Joseph Bommarito
12
Debt and the Care Crisis: Reforms for a Care Economy
Polina Girshova and Iolanda Fresnillo
13
Moving Out of the Twin Crisis: The Role of Public Policy in Enabling the Emergence of a Green Caring Society
Céline Charveriat and Eloïse Bodin
Dr Emily Wolfinger is an Associate Lecturer in Sociology at Western Sydney University, Australia. Her research interrogates institutional and public discourses on sole mothers and critiques the undervaluation of caregiving in late-stage capitalist societies. Informed by her lived experience as the sole mother of three children, including one with a chronic health condition, her scholarship and broader writing advance critical debates on care, equity, and the policy transformations needed to support mothers, caregivers, and more caring social worlds.
Dr. Amanda D. Watson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Associate Member of the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University. A mother of two children, she studies social reproduction and explores how people who do disproportionate shares of carework in their families and communities understand their activities and imagine alternative caring relations. She is working on a book about parenting in racial capitalism.
