Comprising both affective and material labour, and often performed without pay, it is indispensable to society. footnote 2 Historically, these processes of ‘social reproduction’ have been cast as women’s work, although men have always done some of it too.
footnote 1 Often linked to ideas of ‘time poverty’, ‘family-work balance’, and ‘social depletion’, it refers to the pressures from several directions that are currently squeezing a key set of social capacities: those available for birthing and raising children, caring for friends and family members, maintaining households and broader communities, and sustaining connections more generally.
T he ‘crisis of care’ is currently a major topic of public debate.
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