BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR
FURTHER REFERENCE
This bibliography groups together a series of selected sources that are suggested for further
reference on the following topics: introduction to care, the care economy, (global) care
chains, domestic employment and care policy. This bibliography complements the sources
referenced in each chapter. Most of the sources are available online.
Introduction to Care
Daly, M. (2008). “The equal sharing of responsibilities
between women and men, including care-giving in
the context of HIV/AIDS”. Expert Group Meeting on
“Equal sharing of responsibilities between women and
men, including care-giving in the context of HIV/AIDS”.
Geneva: Division for the Advancement of Women.
Available from http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
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Mary%20paper.pdf
Daly, M. and J. Lewis (2000). “The Concept of Social
Care and the Analysis of Contemporary Welfare
States”, British Journal of Sociology 51(2): 281-298.
Available from http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/uploads/
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Esplen, E. (2009). Gender and Care. BRIDGE Cutting
Edge Packs Series. Brighton: Institute of Development
Studies. Available from http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/
reports/CEP_Care_OR.pdf
Esquivel, V. (2013). Care in Households and Communities.
Background Paper on Conceptual Issues. OXFAM
Research Reports, October 2013. Available from
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Razavi, S. (2007). “The Political and Social Economy of
Care in a Development Context: Conceptual Issues,
Research Questions and Policy Options”. Document
3 of the Gender and Development Programme.
Geneva: UNRISD. Available from http://www.unrisd.
org/80256B3C005BCCF9/%28httpAuxPages%29/
2DBE6A93350A7783C12573240036D5A0/$file/
Razavi-paper.pdf
Razavi, S. and S. Staab (eds.) (2012). Global
Variations in the Political and Social Economy of
Care. Worlds Apart. NY: Routledge. Introduction
and extracts are available from http://www.
unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/search/
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OpenDocument
Razavi, S. and S. Staab (2008). “The Social and Political
Economy of Care: Contesting Gender and Class
Inequalities”. Expert Group Meeting on “Equal sharing
of responsibilities between women and men, inclu-
ding care-giving in the context of HIV/AIDS”. Geneva:
Division for the Advancement of Women. Available
from http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/
equalsharing/EGM-ESOR-2008-
BP-3%20UNRISD%20Paper.pdf
UNRISD (2010). “Why Care Matters for Social
Development”, UNRISD Research and Policy Brief, 9.
Geneva: UNRISD. Available from http://www.unrisd.
org/publications/rpb9e
Care Economy
Antonopoulos, R. (2008). “The Intersection of Paid and
Unpaid Care Work”. In The Unpaid Care Work - Paid
Work Connection. Working Paper 86. Geneva: Policy
Integration and Statistics Department, ILO. Available
from http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---
dgreports/---integration/documents/publication/
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Budlender, D. (ed.) (2010). Time Use Studies and Unpaid
Care Work. Routledge/UNRISD. Chapter 1 by D.
Budlender “What do Time Use Studies Tell Us about
Unpaid Care Work? Evidence from Seven Countries”
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Çağatay, N. and K. Ertürk, (2004). Gender and globaliza-
tion: a macroeconomic perspective. Working Paper 19.
Geneva: Policy Integration and Statistics Department,
World Commission on the Social Dimension of
Globalization. ILO. Available from http://www.ilo.int/
wcmsp5/groups/
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Durán, M. A. (2012). Unpaid Work in the Global Economy.
Bilbao: Fundación BBVA
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Elson, D. (2002). “International Financial Architecture:
A View from the Kitchen”. Politica Femina 11(1): 26-37.
Available from www.eclac.org/mujer/curso/elson1.pdf
Esquivel, V. (2013). “Measuring Unpaid Care Work
with Public Policies in Mind”. Expert Group Meeting
Structural and policy constraints in achieving the
MDGs for women and girls. 21-24 October 2013.
Mexico: UN Women. Available from http://www.
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Folbre, N. (2006). “Measuring Care: Gender,
Empowerment, and the Care Economy”. Journal of
Human Development, Vol. 7, No. 2: 183-199. Available
from https://www.amherst.edu/
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PAHO (2010). The Invisible Economy and Gender
Inequalities. The Importance of Measuring and Valuing
Unpaid Work. Washington, D.C.: Pan American Health
Organization. Available from http://new.paho.org/hq/
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Picchio, A. (ed.) (2003). Unpaid work and the Economy:
standard of living in a gender perspective. Routledge
Rodríguez, C. (2012). “Care: the Missing Link in Economic
Analysis?”. CEPAL Review 106: 23-35. Available from
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Seguino, S. (2012). “From Micro-Level Gender Relations
to the Macro Economy and Back Again: Theory and
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Sepúlveda Carmona, M. (2014). Report of the Special
Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.
Human Rights Council Twenty-sixth session. 22 May
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(Global) Care Chains
Benería, L. (2008). “The Crisis of Care, International
Migration, and Public Policy”, Feminist Economics
14(3): 1-21
Escrivá, A. (2005). “Aged Global Care Chains. A
Southern-European Contribution to the Field”.
International Conference on Migration and Domestic
Work in Global Perspective. Wassenaar, 26-29 May
2005. Available from http://envejecimiento.sociales.
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Kofman, E. and P. Raghuram (2007). “The Implications
of Migration for Gender and Care Regimes in the
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Orozco, A. (2010), Global Care Chains: Toward a
Rights-based Global Care Regime?. Santo Domingo:
UN-INSTRAW.
Raghuram, P. (2012). “Global care, local configurations
- challenges to conceptualizations of care”. Global
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Yeates, N. (2012). “Global care chains: a state-of-the-art
review and future directions in care transnationa-
lization research”. Global Networks, 12(2): 135–154.
Available from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
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Global Migration Perspectives 44. Available from
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Zimmerman, M. K., J. Litt y Ch. Bose (eds.) (2006).
Global Dimensions of Gender and Carework.
Standford: Standford University Press. Chapter One
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Domestic Employment
Anderson, B. (2002). “Just another job? The commodi-
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Human Rights Watch (2006). Swept Under the Rug.
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ILO (2013). Domestic Workers across the World: Global
and Regional Statistics and the Extent of Legal
Protection. Ginebra: Organización Internacional del
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ILO (2012). Effective protection for domestic wor-
kers: a guide to designing labour laws. Geneva:
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— (2010a). “Special Issue: Workers in the care economy”.
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re/149-4.htm
— (2010b). Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Report
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— (2009). Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Report
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ILO-IPEC (International Programme on the Elimination
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Oelz, M. (2014). “The ILO’s Domestic Workers Convention
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Care Policy
Bedford, K. (2010). “Harmonizing Global Care Policy?
Care and the Commission on the Status of Women”.
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UNRISD, Geneva. Available at: http://www.peacewo-
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CESPAP and UNDP (2003). Integrating Unpaid Work
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Nations.
Elson, D. (2008). The Three R’s of Unpaid Work:
Recognition, Reduction and Redistribution.
Declaration from the Expert Group Meeting on Unpaid
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Himmelweit, S. (2008). Rethinking Care, Gender
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Himmelweit, S. and H. Land (2008). Reducing gender in-
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ILO (2012). Maternity Protection Resource Package.
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ILO/UNDP (2009). Work and Family: Towards new
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Kabeer, N. (2007). Mainstreaming Gender in Social
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Woodroffe, J. and K. Donald (2014). “Unpaid care. A

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