2020 Eastern Sociological Society Carework Mini Conference

Philadelphia, PA, Saturday, February 29, 2020 

Program

• Au Pair Exchange Programs: Current Contradictions and Recommendations for Reform: Nihal Lynch, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
• “If she wasn’t doing this I would have to pay for childcare anyway.” How the Earned Income Tax Credit sustains informal childcare arrangements with family: Dylan Bellisle, University of Chicago
• The Promise and Limitations of the 2018-2019 Teacher Strikes: Johanna Quinn, William Patterson University

• Adaptation Labor: Gender, Work, and Climate Change in the Sundarbans: Raka Sen, University of Pennsylvania
• The Feminization of Paid and Unpaid Care Work in Cross-national Perspective: Melissa Hodges, Villanova University; Pilar Gonalons-Pons, University of Pennsylvania
• Cultivating Personal and Job Resources Among Filipina Care Workers in New England: Dale Maglalang, Boston College
• The Role of the Internet on the Informal Caregiving Team: Erica Jablonski, Assumption College

• Social Reproduction Theory and the Value Produced by Women’s Work in Sub-Contracted Garment Production: Natascia Boeri, Bloomfield College; 
• Caring On and Off the Clock: Measuring Care Costs and Work Supports among Paid Care Workers with Dependents: Rebecca Huber, Heller School/ Brandeis University; Maura Baldiga, Heller School/ Brandeis University; Pamela Joshi, Heller School/ Brandeis University; Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Heller School/ Brandeis University; 
• After Workers Win: Using Survey Methods to Study Enforcement of New Rights in the Home: Isaac Jabola-Carolus, The Graduate Center, CUNY; 
• The Care Triad Project: Paid Care, Unpaid Care, and Aging: Mignon Duffy, University of Massachusetts – Lowell; Andrew Hostetler, University of Massachusetts at Lowell; Franchesca Arias, University of Massachusetts at Lowell; Paige DePasquale, University of Massachusetts at Lowell

• Doing Grandparenthood: Negotiations of Childcare Work in Chinese Immigrant Families: Xuemei Cao, SUNY Albany; 
• “Who looks after my children while I look after other people’s children?” How nannies deal with the dilemmas of outsourced care: Gracieli Tavares, Sao Paulo University; Fabio de Oliveira, Sao Paulo University; 
• The Racialized Insecurity Shift: Black and White Mothers’ Care Work in School Choice: Mahala Dyer Stewart, Hamilton College; 
• Home care aides’ job experiences of verbally abusive client behaviors: Pia Markannen, University of Massachusetts – Lowell; Nicole Karlsson, University of Massachusetts at Lowell; David Kriebel, University of Massachusetts at Lowell; Catherine Galligan, University of Massachusetts at Lowell; Margaret Quinn, University of Massachusetts at Lowell

• Integrating disability as an axis of inequality in care scholarship: Laura Mauldin, University of Connecticut; 
• The Intersections of Rights and Care: Allison Carey, Shippensburg University;
• Health Care Systems and Disability: How Private and Public Health Care Influences Disabled Patient Experiences: Addison Kimber, University of Connecticut; 
• Care, Children, and Invisible Disabilities in the UK and US: Linda Blum, Northeastern University; Rosalie Warnock, Queen Mary University of London