{"product_id":"the-backstage-of-the-care-economy-transnational-perspectives-on-the-commercialisation-of-care-9780745345369","title":"The Backstage of the Care Economy: Transnational Perspectives on the Commercialisation of Care","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Reveals the causes and consequences behind the explosion of migrant care work. A remarkable contribution from one of the leading social scientists of gender, care and migration in Europe' \u003c\/b\u003eRhacel Salazar Parre?as, Princeton University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A tour-de-force distillation of radical social thought on \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003edomestic labour grounded in critiques of global capitalism' \u003c\/b\u003eHeidi Gottfried, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eGlobal Labor Migration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e What is it like to care for another family, while yours remains in a different country? In today's capitalist society, migrant women performing care work in private households experience the painful tension of caring for both, often under precarious conditions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Characterised as the 'backstage' family, the carer's remote relationship with their loved ones at home is often purely digital, with the double dilemmas of migrant motherhood and stay-behind fathers - exposing the pitfalls of transnational employment relations and the growth of social inequality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Here, Helma Lutz explores the debates around this issue, focusing on carers from Eastern Europe working in the West. She unpacks questions around feminist critiques of capitalism and the commodification of emotional labour, exploring how gender justice and the search for socialist feminist utopias can shape how we see a future - not only for the improvement of the carers' working and living conditions but also for a new way of dealing with care work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelma Lutz\u003c\/b\u003e is a sociologist and Professor Emerita of Women's and Gender Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. For many years she was the Acting Director of the Cornelia Goethe Centre for Women's and Gender Studies. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Maids: Transnational Women and the Care Economy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pluto Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745345369\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.48h x 5.63w x 0.50d","brand":"Helma Lutz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45396503494837,"sku":"9780745345369","price":28.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2da14789-74c4-4641-bbbf-a2b93e12f527.jpg?v=1747750122","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-backstage-of-the-care-economy-transnational-perspectives-on-the-commercialisation-of-care-9780745345369","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}