TY - JOUR
T1 - Defining the boundaries between unpaid labor and unpaid caregiving
T2 - Review of the social and health sciences literature
AU - Friedemann-Sanchez, Greta
AU - Griffin, Joan M.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Informal unpaid caregiving is a critical factor when forming and implementing development policy in and on behalf of developing nations because of how it can affect all aspects of economic and human development for all society, not only women and families. Yet by being treated as an undifferentiated concept from unpaid labor, caregiving remains at the margins in development research and policy. Drawing from different social science and health theories, we present the theoretical roots of caregiving research. We propose that although unpaid caregiving scholarship is embedded in the scholarship of unpaid labor, unpaid caregiving must be defined as a distinct form of unpaid labor. We present the similarities and differences between the two concepts and outline and discuss avenues for extending the frameworks that have been used in the social and health sciences to explore unpaid labor to study specific aspects of caregiving.
AB - Informal unpaid caregiving is a critical factor when forming and implementing development policy in and on behalf of developing nations because of how it can affect all aspects of economic and human development for all society, not only women and families. Yet by being treated as an undifferentiated concept from unpaid labor, caregiving remains at the margins in development research and policy. Drawing from different social science and health theories, we present the theoretical roots of caregiving research. We propose that although unpaid caregiving scholarship is embedded in the scholarship of unpaid labor, unpaid caregiving must be defined as a distinct form of unpaid labor. We present the similarities and differences between the two concepts and outline and discuss avenues for extending the frameworks that have been used in the social and health sciences to explore unpaid labor to study specific aspects of caregiving.
KW - Care
KW - Caregiving
KW - Gender
KW - Unpaid labor
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U2 - 10.1080/19452829.2011.613370
DO - 10.1080/19452829.2011.613370
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84868134025
SN - 1945-2829
VL - 12
SP - 511
EP - 534
JO - Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
JF - Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
IS - 4
ER -