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Care work

Care work refers to activities that meet the physical, emotional, and developmental needs of others and to feelings of affection, concern, or responsibility toward those receiving care. It may be performed for pay or without remuneration and takes place both within households and through institutions such as schools, hospitals, and child care centers.…

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Conceptualization of care

Types of care work

History

Theoretical frameworks

Measurement of care work

Valuation of care work

Care, gender, and inequality

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Care work

Nodes55
Edges54
Triples238
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.036364
Components1

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Care work

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related to Unremunerated care · 14
Care work → Accounting, Although, American Time Use Survey, Bureau, Care, Critics, GDP, Labor Statistics, Survey, The, The Unremunerated Work Act, They, Time-use, United States
related to Care deficit and demographic change · 11
Care work → As, Care, Despite, During, It, Population, Scholars, The, These, This, United States
related to history · 10
Care work → American, Before, Black, Industrial Revolution, Not, The, This, Unlike, With, Women
related to Time-use surveys · 10
Care work → Chinese, For, Guatemala, National, Studies, The, These, Time-series, Time-use, United Nations Statistics Division
related to Operationalization of unpaid care work in empirical research · 9
Care work → American Time Use Survey, ATUS, Comparative, Direct, Empirical, In, Studies, These, This
related to Racial and class stratification in care work · 8
Care work → Black, In, Lower-wage, More, Research, The, These, United States
related to Reproductive labor and social reproduction · 7
Care work → Although, Debra Satz, It, Reproductive, Social, The, While
related to Direct and indirect care · 6
Care work → Active, Care, Direct, Indirect, Scholars, Supervisory
related to Dual meaning of care · 6
Care work → Care, Caring, Clarifying, It, The, This
related to Operationalization of paid care work in empirical research · 6
Care work → Empirical, Some, These, This, United States, Using

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care work unpaid labor paid women domestic often child households within services activities social also household market workers may economic

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
schoolsinstance ofIt may be performed for pay or without remuneration and takes place both within households and through institutions0.80text
hospitalsinstance ofIt may be performed for pay or without remuneration and takes place both within households and through institutions0.80text
and child care centersinstance ofIt may be performed for pay or without remuneration and takes place both within households and through institutions0.80text
schoolsinstance ofTypes of care workPaid and unpaid careCare work may be performed for pay or without remuneration and takes place both within households and through market institutions0.80text
hospitalsinstance ofTypes of care workPaid and unpaid careCare work may be performed for pay or without remuneration and takes place both within households and through market institutions0.80text
and child care centersinstance ofTypes of care workPaid and unpaid careCare work may be performed for pay or without remuneration and takes place both within households and through market institutions0.80text
growing food for own consumptioninstance ofbut it also includes other unpaid productive activities0.80text
collecting waterinstance ofbut it also includes other unpaid productive activities0.80text
fuelinstance ofbut it also includes other unpaid productive activities0.80text
cookinginstance ofHousework includes activities0.80text
cleaninginstance ofHousework includes activities0.80text
laundryinstance ofHousework includes activities0.80text

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