From Crisis to Catastrophe: Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change

By: Joan C. Tronto and Juliana Martínez Franzoni and Veena Siddharth and Ito Peng and Odichinma Akosionu and Janette S. Dill and J'Mag Karbeah and Laura Mauldin and Pat Armstrong and Janna Klostermann and María Nieves Rico and Laura Pautassi and Valeria Esquivel and Pilar Gonalons-Pons and Johanna S. Quinn and Zitha Mokomane and Ameeta Jaga and Ken Chih-Yan Sun and Franziska Dorn and Nancy Folbre and Leila Gautham and Martha MacDonald and Sabrina Marchetti and Merita Mesiäislehto and Orly Benjamin and Thurid Eggers and Christopher Grages and Birgit Pfau-Effinger and Cynthia J. Cranford and Cindy L. Cain and Helen Dickinson and Catherine Smith and Katherine Ravenswood and Julie Kashen

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Synopsis: The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around the world, and the effect of the devaluation of care on workers, families, and communities. In this volume, a diverse group of care scholars bring their expertise to bear on this recent crisis. In doing so, they consider the ways in which the existing social organization of care in different countries around the globe amplified or mitigated the impact of COVID. They also explore the global pandemic's impact on the conditions of care and its role in exacerbating deeply rooted gender, race, migration, disability, and other forms of inequality.