Benoit, Cecilia; Heitlinger, Alena - In: Social Science & Medicine 47 (1998) 8, pp. 1101-1111
This paper contends that there is no single definition of caring work, that it holds no intrinsic meaning in and of itself. While in every human society there are work tasks that involve caring for others unable to adequately care for themselves, such caring work is almost always assigned in...