England 2005

England, P. (2005). "Emerging Theories of Care Work." Annual Review of Sociology, 31, 381-399.

• this article reviews different theories of care work. 
• Gender bias and teh devaluation of care work
• care work is paid poorly because women do it, and women are looked down upon (explicitly or implicitly) in societal norms (382-383)
• the correlation between women being low paid and care work being low paid is seen as an important correlation, though causation is hard to come by (383)
• this can apply to race as well (384-5)
• Care work as a public good
• the idea here is that care work produces public goods, which are by definition udnervalued by the market (385)
• education, e.g., can create more productive workers or people who function within societal rules better, which is a public good (385)
• but it is hard to find direct evidence of this line of theory, since it presumes mistakes in the market which can't really be proven without relying on outside, unprovable reasons (386)
• prisoners of love (389-391)
• if a job has intrinsic benefits, people willaccept less money for doing it (389-90)
• "This perspective suggests an equity problem of taking advantage of altruistic motives.) (390)
• The commodification of emotion: see Hothschild, alienation from one's own emotions (391-2)
• Rejecting the dichotomy between love and money
• other theories implicitly assumes a dichotomy based on gender (women = love and care, men = money) (393)
• this one suggests profit-making or waged labor doesn't necessarily "contaminate" care work/love (393)