ABSTRACT
G radually, we have become aware of the dissolving boundariesbetween the public realm of paid work and the private realmof family or domestic work. The same acts of caring for the children, elderly, and disabled take place both within families and in the public realm and are both paid and unpaid. The blurring of this distinction, and its ramifications, are the suject of Part II. As Clare Ungerson argues, the introduction of cash into care can be problematic. Ungerson’s cross-national policy analysis, which categorizes different ways of compensating care workers, reveals how the exchange of currency complicates the dynamics of the relationships between care workers and care receivers.
