Care work can be performed under different conditions: at home or outside domestic spaces; as a professional or a compulsory social relation; in paid or unpaid forms. In this article I depart from these multiple realities in order to develop two main points. First, I argue that care work is a rich domain that can be used to review recent debates regarding the process of commodification of goods and services. Second, I seek to illustrate how the controversies surrounding the moral dimension of care work can be of relevance to scholars studying other markets.
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Guimarães, N. A. (2016). Casa e mercado, amor e trabalho, natureza e profissão: Controvérsias sobre o processo de mercantilização do trabalho de cuidado. Cadernos Pagu, 2016(46), 59–77. https://doi.org/10.1590/18094449201600460059
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