Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America
Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America
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被迫照顾：美国的胁迫和照顾
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2010
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E. N. Glenn
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E. N. Glenn
美国面临着日益严重的医疗危机。需要护理的人数在增加，而传统护理人员的人数却在减少。护理工作者的地位是一个关键问题。伊芙琳·中野·格伦（Evelyn Nakano Glenn）对美国的护理劳动提出了一种创新的解释，她从两个相互关联的方面追溯了不平等的根源：家庭内部的无偿护理；以及奴隶制、契约和其他形式的强迫劳动。通过将两者纳入同一个分析框架，她提供了一个令人信服的解释，说明护理工作的贬值，以及无偿和有偿护理工作者被排除在最低工资、退休福利和工人补偿等关键权利之外。格伦揭示了关于性别、家庭、家庭、文明和公民身份的假设如何塑造了护理劳动的发展，并被纳入法律和社会政策。她揭露了导致女性——尤其是移民和有色人种女性——承担不成比例的照顾劳动的潜在控制系统。最后，她探讨了改善无薪家庭照顾者和有薪家庭保健工作者状况的策略。这本重要而及时的书阐明了美国人关于在一个良好社会中关心他人的价值和重要性的信念与那些真正关心他人的人的剥削和贬低地位之间矛盾的根源。
The United States faces a growing crisis in care. The number of people needing care is growing while the ranks of traditional caregivers have shrunk. The status of care workers is a critical concern. Evelyn Nakano Glenn offers an innovative interpretation of care labor in the United States by tracing the roots of inequity along two interconnected strands: unpaid caring within the family; and slavery, indenture, and other forms of coerced labor. By bringing both into the same analytic framework, she provides a convincing explanation of the devaluation of care work and the exclusion of both unpaid and paid care workers from critical rights such as minimum wage, retirement benefits, and workers' compensation. Glenn reveals how assumptions about gender, family, home, civilization, and citizenship have shaped the development of care labor and been incorporated into law and social policies. She exposes the underlying systems of control that have resulted in women - especially immigrants and women of color - performing a disproportionate share of caring labor. Finally, she examines strategies for improving the situation of unpaid family caregivers and paid home healthcare workers. This important and timely book illuminates the source of contradictions between American beliefs about the value and importance of caring in a good society and the exploitation and devalued status of those who actually do the caring.