The concept of care: from origins to future challenges

Mary Daly

Chapter 2 in Research Handbook on Social Care Policy, 2025, pp 21-36 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter offers an introduction to and critical analysis of the scholarship on care, examining its theoretical and empirical orientations, identifying weakness and suggesting potentially useful topics for future work. Work on care is expanding and the field is very interdisciplinary. It is useful to take stock. This chapter does this in two main parts. It will first, undertake what might be termed a ‘thematic review’. For this it will critically review four sets of literature in turn: care as labour and relational orientation; care, social policy and the state; care system functioning; care as a global entity. The second part of the paper identifies strengths and weaknesses in the field and offers thoughts around future work, seeking to frame core research issues and developing a number of fruitful lines of enquiry, in particular care inequalities, the care economy and the political economy of care.

Keywords: Long-term care; Gender; Intersectionality; Theoretical approaches to care; The care economy; Care and the welfare state (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781839103681
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