Bigo, Vinca - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 2, pp. 117-133
Care work, such as that carried out by 'angelic' nurses, mothers, and other carers, is treated in a dualistic fashion: it is both idealised and poorly valued. The puzzling phenomenon before us is something of a paradox. The objective of this paper is to explain this hitherto unaddressed...