scholarly journals Care Economy and the Burden of Housewives’ Work in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Atnike Nova Sigiro

<div>Social reproduction role by women are mostly unpaid, which are done in the context of social relation within household or family. In the context of macro economy, care work for family are often overlooked, furthermore are often not being considered as productive work that contribute to the economy. This situation bring overburden to women and the lack of appreciation toward care work in Indonesia. This article was written based on a national survey conducted in 2018 in 34 provinces in Indonesia. The survey measured the care work’s burden of housewives, and public perception towards care economy that are run by housewives in Indonesia.</div><p> </p>

Sociologija ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-83
Author(s):  
Laura Lapinske

This paper presents challenges and life strategies of highly educated single mothers in Lithuania. My ethnography traces the impact on strategies of remaining in a country where exit strategies - alcoholism, suicide, emigration - prevail and seem as an ?easier? option. It is a study concerned with the relationship between precarity, single motherhood, social reproduction and everyday living. I focus on precarious living conditions, social isolation and stigmatization, unappreciated and highly gendered care-work. Based on collaborative ethnographic fieldwork material, the paper presents the micro-level attempts to negotiate what it means to be a lone care-taker, to revalorize and challenge the hegemonic narratives of individual strength and success.


2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ito Peng

This article describes two broad approaches to care and care work within a spectrum of approaches that are evident in East Asia: one that accepts care as a core public policy agenda, and tries to leverage it as a potential engine to activate the incipient care economy; and the other, that sees care as strictly private family responsibility, and hence opts to partially underwrite the familial care with a mix of tax and policy incentives through the private market – including creating channels for families to outsource care to foreign migrant care workers. The author uses elder care policies to illustrate ways in which socio-cultural ideas and institutional history shape national policies, and how these policies in turn shape ways in which care is delivered, and care work organized within the family and in the market.


Author(s):  
Victoria Pereyra-Iraola ◽  
Samanthi J Gunawardana

Abstract The article reflects on the ways in which social reproduction intersects with (im)mobility in export-processing zones in Sri Lanka and the outskirts of prisons in Argentina. Framing factories and prisons as “carceral spaces” and drawing upon diverse case study materials, it focuses on (i) the daily circulations and waiting that take place around these closely regulated sites and (ii) the relations of care that emerge in these sites. The article analyzes how gendered care work can be an active form of agency and resistance to structural confinement and violence, which is nevertheless embedded in broader forms of depletion.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-186
Author(s):  
Alexandria Riopelle ◽  
Jacqueline Watchmaker ◽  
Lynne Goldberg

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-178
Author(s):  
Cristina Cielo ◽  
Lisset Coba

AbstractSocial inequalities can only be understood through the interaction of their multiple dimensions. In this essay, we show that the economic and environmental impacts of natural resource extraction exacerbate gendered disparities through the intensification and devaluation of care work. A chikungunya epidemic in the refinery city of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, serves to highlight the embodied and structural violence of unhealthy conditions. Despite its promises of development, the extraction-based economy in Esmeraldas has not increased its vulnerable populations’ opportunities. It has, instead, deepened class and gendered hierarchies. In this context, the most severe effects of chikungunya are experienced by women, who bear the burden of social reproduction and sustaining lives under constant threat.


2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Chen ◽  
Zhao Zhang ◽  
Peijun Shi ◽  
Xiao Song ◽  
Pin Wang ◽  
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