Category: Care Economy
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An Interview with Misty Heggeness, Author of Swiftynomics
About: Misty L. Heggeness is co-director of the Kansas Population Center, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Kansas, and former Principal Economist and Senior Advisor at the US Census Bureau. She is also creator of The Care Board, a dashboard of economic statistics built by and for caregivers that brings…
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Care Work and Emotional Labour in Urban India
Historically, the beginning of nannies, governesses, and wet nurses as an occupation is largely traced to Western Europe, where women from marginalised communities, such as African Americans, used to work as nannies for upper-middle-class white families. Post-liberalisation, India also saw a boom in the economy, whose impacts were multidimensional, ranging from expanding income to dual-income…