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YSI Pre-Conference @ 4th Global Carework Summit “Histories and Futures of care” in Duke University (North Carolina, USA)

YSI Pre-Conference @Global Carework Summit

Start time:

June 5 @ 8:00 am - June 7 @ 5:00 pm

EDT

Location:

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Durham

Type:

Pre-conference

Description

YSI Pre-Conference Workshop Care Work and Economic Justice: Perspectives and Policies

Traditional economic views often take the production and reproduction of labor force as given, ignoring the continuous, time- and energy-consuming work required to maintain it. The activities that facilitate the transformation of goods and services into effective well-being, thereby enabling individuals to engage in the economic system, are collectively referred to as carework. Therefore, we cannot fully understand the economy without acknowledging the crucial role of carework in sustaining it.

Unfortunately, carework is unfairly distributed, with women, racialized and queer people bearing a disproportionate share of both (under)paid and unpaid care provision. Additionally, access to care work varies based on socioeconomic status and other intersectional identities. Therefore, it is urgent that we rethink carework to build fairer and more equitable economies.

The 4th Global Carework Summit 2025 to be held June 5-7 June at Duke University, North Carolina celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Global Carework Network and invites us to collectively rethink care work in order to imagine more sustainable futures. It will explore how conversations about care have developed during the last 25 years and what factors have informed notable inflection points — not only discrete events such as the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic but also more sustained dynamics such as environmental crises, pervasive neoliberal policies, the ongoing importance of migrant careworkers, the changing role of technologies and infrastructures,

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