Depletion : the human costs of caring /

Shirin M. Rai examines the human costs of caring and how these are reproduced across the boundaries of class, race, gender, and generation. Including case studies from different parts of the world and building on various methodologies, Rai looks at the costs of care work, or what she calls 'soc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rai, Shirin (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:	Caregivers > Social conditions. Caregivers > Economic conditions. Aidants naturels > Conditions sociales. Aidants naturels > Conditions économiques. History & Theory. POLITICAL SCIENCE. Feminism & Feminist Theory. SOCIAL SCIENCE. Women's Studies. Gender Studies. Social services & welfare, criminology. Society. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Cover
Depletion
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Care, Social Reproduction, and Depletion
1. Depletion, Harms and Struggles to Reverse Them
2. Measuring Depletion in Multiple Registers
3. A Day in the Life of . . . : Mapping Individual Depletion across Class Boundaries
4. Depletion on the Move: Commuting and Social Reproduction
5. Depleting Futures: Children Who Care
6. Postcards to the Future: Anticipatory Harms and Struggles against Extractivism
Conclusion: Building Solidarities to Reverse Depletion
Notes
References
Index.