ABSTRACT
Health care has become a global industry, one that provides a revealing entry point for understanding precarious employment. Much of care work is unpaid, and all of it is highly gendered. Providers and patients increasingly move around the world, creating not only precarious employment but also critical questions about the regulation and definition of care work. At the same time, the health-care sector, which includes unpaid health-care work as well as the paid work of the health-care industry, allows us to link productive and reproductive labour through a gender lens.
