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

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

    9781978828568

    Paperback / softback, published 12 May 2023

    272 pages, 2 bw, 1 color, 10 tables
    23.5 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.054 kg

    "From Crisis to Catastrophe is a very timely book, focusing on two topics that have received great attention recently: care and COVID-19. The editors, scholars specialized in the topic, have gathered a group of outstanding experts from multiple institutions and countries to address this new phenomenon."

    — Camila Arza, research fellow at National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina

    "The editors of From Crisis to Catastrophe are three of the most important scholars of care work in the 21st century. In this book they bring together scholars from many regions across the globe, whose work has the potential to identify key strategies to create a safer, healthier, and more just economy."
    — Joya Misra, coauthor of The New Handbook of Political Sociology

    "Even before COVID-19, severe shortages existed in supplies of nurses, home health workers, nurse aides, day care workers, and others able to provide similar care, largely due to inadequate payment and cultural norms belittling the value of what had been considered 'women's work.' This book explores the ways the pandemic exposed those deficiencies and exacerbated them to the point of collapse, pointing out the especially high burden borne by 'low-skilled' care workers of color, including personal illness and death of caregivers."

    — Family Medicine

    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.

    Introduction 
    MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN
    PART ONE Crisis
    1 Beyond Wealth-Care: Pandemic Dreams for a Just and Caring Future
    JOAN C. TRONTO
    2 Latin America's Response to COVID-19: The Risk of Sealing an Unequal Care Regime 
    JULIANA MARTÍNEZ FRANZONI ANDVEENA SIDDHARTH
    3 COVID-19, Global Care, and Migration 
    ITO PENG
    4 Black Lives Matter: Structural Racism, Sexism, and Carework in the United States 
    ODICHINMA AKOSIONU, JANETTE DILL, MIGNON DUFFY, AND J'MAG KARBEAH
    5 Disability, Ableism, and Care during COVID-19 in the United States 
    LAURA MAULDIN
    6 Unpaid Care in Public Places: Tensions in the Time of COVID-19 
    PAT ARMSTRONG AND JANNA KLOSTERMANN


    PART TWO Catastrophe
    7 The Right to Care at Stake: The Syndemic Emergency in Latin America
    MARÍA NIEVES RICO AND LAURA C. PAUTASSI
    8 At the Crossroads of the Employment and the Care
    Crises: Care Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic 
    VALERIA ESQUIVEL
    9 Caring for Children and the Economy: The Uneven Effects of the Pandemic on Childcare Workers, Primary School Teachers, and Unpaid Caregivers 
    PILAR GONALONS-PONS AND JOHANNA S. QUINN
    10 COVID-19 and Care for the Elderly People in Africa: An Analysis of South Africa's Mitigation Measures
    ZITHA MOKOMANE AND AMEETA JAGA
    11 Transnational Family Caregiving during a Global Pandemic 
    KEN CHIH-YAN SUN


    PART THREE Aftermath
    12 Cheap Praise: Supplemental Pay for Essential Workers in the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic 
    FRANZISKA DORN, NANCY FOLBRE, LEILA GAUTHAM, AND MARTHA MACDONALD
    13 Migrants in Europe's Domestic and Care Sector: The Institutional Response 
    SABRINA MARCHETTI AND MERITA MESIÄISLEHTO
    14 Budgeting Care Services during the COVID-19 Crisis 
    ORLY BENJAMIN
    15 Policy, Culture, and COVID-19: European Childcare Policies during the Pandemic 
    THURID EGGERS, CHRISTOPHER GRAGES, AND BIRGIT PFAU-EFFINGER


    PART FOUR Transformation
    16 Exposing Fault Lines, Flaring Tensions, and the Need for New Alliances: Home Care in the Time of COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada 
    CYNTHIA J. CRANFORD
    17 End-of-Life Considerations during COVID-19 
    CINDY L. CAIN
    18 COVID-19 and the Rise of the Care Robots 
    HELEN DICKINSON AND CATHERINE SMITH
    19 Challenging Gender Regimes through Employee Voice in Carework 
    KATHERINE RAVENSWOOD
    20 Building a Care Infrastructure in the United States 
    JULIE KASHEN
    Epilogue: Care in Crisis: Convergences and Divergences 
    MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNN
    Acknowledgments
    References 
    Notes on Contributors 
    Index 
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