From Crisis to Catastrophe

MIGNON DUFFY is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts - Lowell. Her scholarship is focused on the intersections of paid care work with gender, race, citizenship, and class inequalities. She was co-editor of Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work (Rutgers University Press, 2015) and author of Making Care Count: A Century of Gender, Race and Paid Care Work (Rutgers University Press, 2011).AMY ARMENIA is Professor of sociology at Rollins College. She has published work on child care, care work, and family leave in Work and Occupations, the Journal of Family Issues, and Social Science Research. She was co-editor of Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work (Rutgers University Press, 2015).KIM PRICE-GLYNN is Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her research addresses gender, paid and unpaid care work. She has published in Gender & Society; Gender, Work & Organization; and Work, Employment & Society. She is author of Strip Club: Gender, Power, and Sex Work (New York University Press, 2010).

"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

• Introduction MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNNPART ONE Crisis1 Beyond Wealth-Care: Pandemic Dreams for a Just and Caring FutureJOAN C. TRONTO2 Latin America's Response to COVID-19: The Risk of Sealing an Unequal Care Regime JULIANA MARTÍNEZ FRANZONI ANDVEENA SIDDHARTH3 COVID-19, Global Care, and Migration ITO PENG4 Black Lives Matter: Structural Racism, Sexism, and Carework in the United States ODICHINMA AKOSIONU, JANETTE DILL, MIGNON DUFFY, AND J'MAG KARBEAH5 Disability, Ableism, and Care during COVID-19 in the United States LAURA MAULDIN6 Unpaid Care in Public Places: Tensions in the Time of COVID-19 PAT ARMSTRONG AND JANNA KLOSTERMANN PART TWO Catastrophe7 The Right to Care at Stake: The Syndemic Emergency in Latin AmericaMARÍA NIEVES RICO AND LAURA C. PAUTASSI8 At the Crossroads of the Employment and the CareCrises: Care Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic VALERIA ESQUIVEL9 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. QUINN10 COVID-19 and Care for the Elderly People in Africa: An Analysis of South Africa's Mitigation MeasuresZITHA MOKOMANE AND AMEETA JAGA11 Transnational Family Caregiving during a Global Pandemic KEN CHIH-YAN SUN PART THREE Aftermath12 Cheap Praise: Supplemental Pay for Essential Workers in the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic FRANZISKA DORN, NANCY FOLBRE, LEILA GAUTHAM, AND MARTHA MACDONALD13 Migrants in Europe's Domestic and Care Sector: The Institutional Response SABRINA MARCHETTI AND MERITA MESIÄISLEHTO14 Budgeting Care Services during the COVID-19 Crisis ORLY BENJAMIN15 Policy, Culture, and COVID-19: European Childcare Policies during the Pandemic THURID EGGERS, CHRISTOPHER GRAGES, AND BIRGIT PFAU-EFFINGER PART FOUR Transformation16 Exposing Fault Lines, Flaring Tensions, and the Need for New Alliances: Home Care in the Time of COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada CYNTHIA J. CRANFORD17 End-of-Life Considerations during COVID-19 CINDY L. CAIN18 COVID-19 and the Rise of the Care Robots HELEN DICKINSON AND CATHERINE SMITH19 Challenging Gender Regimes through Employee Voice in Carework KATHERINE RAVENSWOOD20 Building a Care Infrastructure in the United States JULIE KASHENEpilogue: Care in Crisis: Convergences and Divergences MIGNON DUFFY, AMY ARMENIA, AND KIM PRICE-GLYNNAcknowledgmentsReferences Notes on Contributors Index