Care work is at once omnipresent and invisible. It encompasses all forms of socially necessary – or reproductive – labor: raising children, cooking, cleaning, shopping, looking after the elderly and the ill, and many other tasks. It is what allows for and sustains productive labor (including architectural labor) in the first place. Although economic production depends on the work of social reproduction, care work is usually unpaid and pushed out of sight. It is indisputable that care work falls disproportionately upon women and unevenly along lines of race and class. Demographic changes, environmental crises, growing mobility, transformations of labor, and the reconfiguration of traditional institutions of care – from the nuclear family to welfare state provisions – have made the inequity of care a key problem in architectural debates.
Gabrielle Schaad, Torsten Lange
Max J. Andrucki, Natasha Baranow, Can Bilsel, Jos Boys, Milena Buchwalder, Garnette Cadogan, Jay Cephas, Lilian Chee, Valentina Davila, Sonja Flury, Dorothee Hahn, Elis Mendoza, Ana Miljački, Ikem Stanley Okoye, Itohan Osayimwese, Kush Patel, Barbara Penner, Peg Rawes, Javairia Shahid, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Meredith TenHoor, Alla Vronskaya, Delia Duong Ba Wendel
büro uebele
2022. 21 × 29.7 cm, softcover 156 pages, 86 illustrations ISBN 978-3-85676-432-6 Text in English
