Chapter 11. The Crisis of Care

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Editors’ Acknowledgments xiii
5. Guide to Topics xv
6. Introduction: An Eye on Emotion in the Study of Families and Work 1
7. PART I. Family Time Binds
8. Chapter 1. Inside the Clockwork of Male Careers 17
9. Chapter 2. Shift Work in Multiple Time Zones: Some Implications of Contingent and Nonstandard Employment for Family Life 30
10. Chapter 3. Where Families and Children’s Activities Meet: Gender, MESHing Work, and Family Myths 43
11. Chapter 4. Emotional Carework, Gender, and the Division of Household Labor 61
12. Chapter 5. “Why Can’t I Have What I Want?”: Timing Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood 74
13. PART II. Work/Family Feeling Rules for Managing the Heart
14. 6. Framing Couple Time and Togetherness among American and Norwegian Professional Couples 85
15. 7. Love and Gratitude: Single Mothers Talk about Men’s Contributions to the Second Shift 100
16. Chapter 8. The Asking Rules of Reciprocity 112
17. Chapter 9. Wives Who Play by the Rules: Working on Emotions in the Sport Marriage 124
18. Chapter 10. Emotion Work in the Age of Insecurity 136
19. PART III. Emotional Geography of Invisible Work
20. Chapter 11. The Crisis of Care 149
21. Chapter 12. The Family Work of Parenting in Public 161
22. Chapter 13. Maternally Yours: The Emotion Work of “Maternal Visibility” 171
23. Chapter 14. Invisible Care and the Illusion of Independence 180
24. PART IV. Commodifying Intimate Life
25. Chapter 15. Remaking Family through Subcontracting Care: Elder Care in Taiwanese and Hong Kong Immigrant Families 193
26. Chapter 16. The Viacom Generation: The Consumer Child and the Corporate Parent 206
27. Chapter 17. Consumption as Care and Belonging: Economies of Dignity in Children’s Daily Lives 217
28. Chapter 18. Interracial Intimacy on the Commodity Frontier 228
29. PART V. Global Care Chains 241
30. Chapter 19. The Globalization-Family Nexus: Families as Mediating Structures of Globalization 243
31. Chapter 20. Homeland Visits: Transnational Magnified Moments among Low-Wage Immigrant Men 250
32. Chapter 21. Childbirth at the Global Crossroads 262
33. Afterword 269
34. Notes on Contributors 273