ABSTRACT
Folbre has outlined a series of political strategies that would help us ameliorate the crisis in care. For example, she highlights the need for linking two social movements already underway: political mobilization by those who need help with care and movements by underpaid careworkers who, often through unions, are organizing living wage, worthy wage, and comparable worth campaigns. Scholars can also help spur recognition that change is possible. For example, when we write about robust empirical trends, we should avoid the language of inevitability, as in statements like low-wage work is here to stay. The irrationalities and injustices of poverty were made, and they can be changed by collective human action. Skocpol has observed that public programs in other industrial democracies correct for difficulties and inequities in the private wage market. However especially since the 1980s, U. S. public policies have tended to exacerbate market disparities.
