Caregivers and care work

Seminar 1957

Chair: CLACSO
Coordination: Natacha Borgeaud-Garciandía (CONICET, Argentina)
Home: 30 / 09 / 2019 | Registration: 04/02/2019 al 29/09/2019

Workload: 12 weeks – 90 hours.

Payment methods
If you have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

Paying in one payment: USD 95 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

If you have a link with a Network or Institution Associated with CLACSO:

Paying in one payment: USD 140 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

If you do NOT have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

Paying in one payment BEFORE 19/09/2019: USD 150 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).
Paying in one payment: USD 190 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

Course presentation:

The course revisits questions that invite analysis and reflection on care work, its dimensions, its social distribution, and the place of the experiences of caregivers: who does what and how?

Delving deeper into these questions leads us to address a variety of issues stemming from care work as concrete labor, performed in response to the needs of others, oneself, and the environment, and as a “production of life.” These issues, not exhaustive, concern aspects such as the division of care work, its connection to migration and antagonisms based on gender, class, and “race,” the issue of training, the subjective and emotional dimensions of care, the ambiguities of work, its role in the construction of identities and work collectives, the situated practice and ethics of care, and its impact on research. These different approaches contribute to reflecting on and questioning the divisions and fragmentations between spheres of life, social temporalities, divisions between the objective and the subjective, between reason and emotion, between the private, intimate, and public, opening the door to a reflection on the very concept of work.

Continuing with these approaches, the courses will draw on specific research conducted in various countries, including Argentina, Brazil, France, Canada, and Japan. This will foster a cross-disciplinary dialogue between sociology and specialties such as labor, gender, and migration studies, and psychology, particularly through the contributions of work psychodynamics.

Contents:

Emotions are not the work of caring
Thinking about care work from the experiences of caregivers of dependent older adults
Subjectivity and care (Brazil, France, Japan)
Career paths and training in elderly care (Argentina)
Domestic and care workers in Latin America: forms of resistance and collective action
Migrations and dependent vehicles
The nursing profession and care work: Research insights in light of work psychodynamics and care theory
Psychodynamics of work, defense strategies and ethics of care
Transformations in the representations of care: from sociogenesis to microgenesis
Ethics of care and knowledge of the social world

General Bibliography of the Seminar

Amaya Adira, J., Arango, LG, Pérez-Bustos, T., Pineda J.(org.), Gender and care. Theories, scenarios and policies, Bogotá: National University of Colombia, University of the Andes, Pontifical Javeriana University.
Arango Gaviria, LG, Molinier, P. (eds) (2011), Work and the Ethics of Care, Medellín: La Carreta Editores, National University of Colombia.
Borgeaud-Garciandía N. (2017) Behind Closed Doors. Home Care Work for Older Adults and Migration in the City of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires: Teseo
Borgeaud-Garciandía N. (comp.) (2018), The work of care, Buenos Aires: Fundación Medifé Edita, “Horizons of Care” collection. Available at: https://www.fundacionmedife.com.ar/el-trabajo-de-cuidado.
Chardón MC (2018), “The epistemological shift of rights and its impact on older adulthood”, V Conference on Exchange and Reflection on Human Rights in University Extension, UNQ-UBA, October 22, CD (in press).
Chardón MC (2019) “Cartographies of Care. Unfolding of etymologies and themes”. In Chardon, MC, Montenegro R, Borakievich S. (2019), Institutions and subjects of care: health, education, families, Bernal: UNQ, Texts and Readings in Social Sciences collection (in press).
Damamme A., Hirata H., Molinier P. (2017), Le travail entre public, privé et intime. Comparisons et enjeux internationaux du care, Paris: L'Harmattan.
Debert GG , Marques Pulhez M. (org.) (2019), Care Challenges: Gênero, velhice e deficiência, São Paolo: UNICAMP/IFCH.
England P. (2005), “Emerging theories of care work”, Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 31, 381–399.
Findling L, Champalbert L, Mario S. and Cirino E.(2015), “The vertex of the market: paid caregivers and private companies”, in Findling, L and López, E. (coord.), Of care and caregivers. Public and private actions. Editorial Biblos: Buenos Aires.
Findling L., López E. (comp.) (2015), Of care and caregivers. Public and private actions, Buenos Aires: Biblos Editions.
Gilligan C. (1982), In a Different Voice, Harvard University Press.
Gilligan, C. (1982). In a different voice: psychological theory and women's development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Translation: Gilligan C. (1985), Morality and theory. Psychology of female development, Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Guimarães N., Hirata H. (2012), Care and caregivers. As various faces of work in care, São Paulo: Atlas.
Hirata H. (2018), “Subjectivity and sexuality in care work”, in Borgeaud Garciandia N., Care Work, Buenos Aires: Fundación Medifé Ed., pp. 105-115.
Hirata H., Zarifian P. (2007), “The concept of work”, Revista de Trabajo, year 3, no. 4. Available at: http://ciiesregion8.com.ar/portal/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/el-concepto-de-trabajo.pdf
Hochschild AR (1979), “Emotion work, feeling rules, and social structure”, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 85, No. 3, pp. 551-575.
Hochschild AR, The commodification of intimate life. Notes from home and work, Madrid-Buenos Aires: Katz Editores.
Lorey I. (2016) State of Insecurity. Governing precarity, Traficantes de Sueños, Madrid, pp. 97-116. (See chapters 6 and 7: “Care crisis and care strike” and “Exodus and constitution”).
Magliano MJ (2018) “Migrant women and domestic employment in Córdoba: struggles and resistance against forms of exploitation and labor violence”, in Borgeaud-Garciandía.
Magliano MJ, Perissinotti MV, Zenklusen D. (comps.) (2016), The blind knots of inequality. Dialogues between migrations and care, Córdoba: CONICET.
Mallimaci Barral AI (2018), “Migrant women and the management of care. Nursing in the labor horizon”, in Borgeaud-Garciandía N. (ed.). Care work, Buenos Aires: Fundación Medifé Ed., 118-136.
Molinier P. (2013), Le travail du care, Paris: La Dispute.
Molinier P. (2018), “Care put to the test by work. Cross vulnerabilities and discreet know-how”, in Borgeaud-Garciandía N., Care work, Buenos Aires: Fundación Medifé Edita.
N. (comp.) Care work, Buenos Aires: Fundación Medifé Edita, pp. 31-55.
Paperman P. (2019), Care and feelings, Buenos Aires: Fundación Medifé Edita.
Tronto, J. (1993), Moral boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care, London: Routledge.
Wharton, AS (2009), “The sociology of emotional labor”, Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 35, 147–65.
Wlosko M., Ros C. (2018), “The nursing profession and care work. Research scores in light of the Psychodynamics of Work and the theory of care”, in Borgeaud Garciandía N. (comp.), Care work, Buenos Aires; Fundación Medifé Ed., pp. 161- 183.
Wlosko M., Ros C. (2019), “Contributions of the Psychodynamics of Work to the analysis of workplace violence: analysis of the nursing case”, in Wlosko M., Ros C., Work: between pleasure and suffering. Contributions from the Psychodynamics of Work, Edunla, pp. 73-117).
Wlosko M., Ros C. (ed.) (2019), Wlosko M., Ros C. (coord), Work: between pleasure and suffering. Contributions of the Psychodynamics of Work, Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la UNLa.

FAQ

What do I need to take a CLACSO virtual seminar?

The basic requirements for taking a seminar are:

Availability of at least 4 hours per week to dedicate to the seminar course.
Internet access.
Reasonable handling of communication and computer tools.
Language proficiency in the language in which the course will be taught. The official languages are Spanish and Portuguese.

What is the length of a CLACSO virtual seminar? What is the total number of hours?

The seminars last 12 weeks, plus the completion of a final project. A total of 90 hours of dedication will be credited.

What is the work modality and dynamics?

A course consists of twelve classes, each accompanied by required readings, supplementary readings, discussion forums, and learning activities proposed by the teaching team, as well as partial submissions and a final project. The course is delivered online and asynchronously. Some instructors may propose synchronous activities. In these cases, the time and date will be agreed upon in advance between the teaching team and the students to ensure everyone's participation. To pass the seminar, students must participate in at least 80% of the discussion forums and activities proposed by the instructors, complete all scheduled partial submissions, and pass the final project.