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Table of Contents -- About the Authors -- Authorship and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Defining Care - Nancy Folbre and Olin Wright -- Chapter 2. Motivating Care - Paula England, Nancy Folbre and Carrie Leana -- Chapter 3. Unpaid Care - Suzanne Bianchi, Nancy Folbre, and Douglass Wolf -- Chapter 4. Paid Care Work - Candace Howes, Carrie Leana, and Kristin Smith -- Chapter 5. Valuing Care - Nancy Folbre -- Chapter 6. The Care Policy Landscape - Janet Gornick, Candance Howes, and Laura Braslow

This book dramatizes the history of self-interest by describing a centuries-long debate over greed, lust, and appropriate gender roles in terms that ordinary readers will enjoy. Ranging from the 18th century to the present, it offers a deft and engaging critique of economic history and the history of ideas from a feminist perspective.

This case study in the evolution of heterodox economics describes the emergence of feminist perspectives on care provision and their implications for a larger theory of bargaining over the distribution of gains from cooperation. It testifies to the hybrid vigor of diverse and ongoing efforts to challenge the narrow focus of the neoclassical paradigm.

This essay provides a brief informal reflection on radicalism from the perspective of intersectional political economy.JEL Classification: A113, B51, B54

RésuméL'autrice de cette introduction commente et analyse les diverses contributions qui composent ce numéro du centenaire de la Revue internationale du Travail sur les femmes, le travail et l'égalité entre les sexes. Elle souligne la nécessité de reconnaître que le travail des femmes est sous‐évalué, qu'il soit accompli dans leur foyer ou sur le marché du travail. Elle met également en lumière les divers efforts déployés pour remédier à ces problèmes étroitement imbriqués.

ResumenEn esta introducción se reflexiona sobre las contribuciones seleccionadas para el presente monográfico del centenario de la Revista Internacional del Trabajo (RIT) dedicado a las mujeres y la igualdad de género. Se pone de relieve la tendencia a subestimar el trabajo que las mujeres tradicionalmente han realizado tanto en el ámbito doméstico como en el mercado laboral. Asimismo, se hace hincapié en las diversas iniciativas destinadas a remediar estos inextricables problemas.

AbstractThis introduction to the Centenary Issue of the International Labour Review (ILR) on women and gender equality reflects on the distinctive contributions included. It emphasizes the need to recognize the undervaluation of work that women have traditionally performed both in the home and in the labour market. It also highlights diverse efforts to remedy these intricately linked problems.

This essay offers a new way of visualizing structures of collective power based on gender, emphasizing the role of social institutions in shaping women's ability to bargain over the distribution of the gains from cooperation with men. It makes the case for an interdisciplinary conceptualization of bargaining power that emphasizes the role of imperfect information and inefficient outcomes, and explains important parallels between structures of collective power based on gender, age, and sexuality, and those based on other dimensions of socially assigned group membership such as race, ethnicity, citizenship, and class. Recognition of the importance of reproductive work helps advance the project of developing intersectional political economy.