Books

By Speakers and Others

Selma James

• Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet. Selma James (Binghamton, New York: PM Press, 2021)
• Sex, Race, and Class―The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings, 1952–2011. Selma James (Binghamton, New York: PM Press, 2012)

 Dorothy Roberts

• Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. Dorothy Roberts. (New York: Civitas, 2002)
• Torn Apart: How the child welfare system destroys black families and how abolition can build a safer world, Dorothy Roberts. (New York: Basic Books, 2022)

 Nina Lopez

• The Perspective Of Caring: Why Mothers & All Caregivers Should Get a Living Wage for their Caring Work. Nina Lopez. (London: Crossroads Books & Films, 1980)

 Margaret Prescod

• Black Women Bringing It All Back Home. Margaret Prescod. (London: Falling Wall Press, 1980)

 Premilla Nadasen

• Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. Premilla Nadasen. (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2023)
• Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement.  Premilla Nadasen. (Boston: Beacon Press, 2015)
• Rethinking the Welfare Rights Movement. Premilla Nadasen. (New York: Routledge, 2012)
• Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States. Premilla Nadasen. (New York: Routledge, 2005).

 Stefania Barca

• Workers of the Earth: Labour, Ecology and Reproduction in the Age of Climate Change. Stefania Barca. (London: Pluto Press, 2024)

 Prabha Kotiswaran

• Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India. Prabha Kotiswaran. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011)

 Bonita Lawrence

• Strong Woman Voices: Native Vision and Community Survival, Bonita Lawrence. (Toronto: Three O'Clock Press, 2003)

 Alissa Trotz

• The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye, Alissa Trotz. (London: Pluto Books, 2020) 

 Emily Callaci

• Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor, Emily Callaci. (New York: Seal Press, 2025)

 Didi Pershouse

• The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities, Didi Pershouse. (Thetford Center, VT: Mycelium Books, 2015)

Virginia Eubanks

• Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, Virginia Eubanks. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2018

Solveig Francis

• The Milk of Human Kindness – Defending breastfeeding from the global market and the AIDS industry, Solveig Francis, Phoebe Jones, Selma James and Nina Lopez (London: Crossroads Books & Films, 2002.

 Films

1. All Work and No Pay, Global Women's Strike. (London: BBC, 2003)
2. DNS Give Us Back Our Children. (Philadelphia: Scribe Video Center, 2011)
3. Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (New York: Netflix, 2020)

Articles

1. Garcia, Kristina. "The 'True Value of Women's Work'." 2023. Penn Today
2. Gonalons-Pons, P. and J. S. Quinn. 2024. “Divergent Pandemic Pathways for Paid and Unpaid Caregivers of Children.” Socius
3. Kenway, Emily. "Family caregiving should be seen as an expectation — not an exception.” 2023. Washington Post.
4. Miller, K., P. Gonalons-Pons, A. Kreider, N. Coe, A. Hoffman. 2024. “Medicaid Spending on Home- and Community-Based Services and the Economic Status of Home Care Workers.” Health Services Review.
5. Moore, Gwen. "Caregiving is not only a labor of love¾it is labor. It is work." 2023. The Hill.
6. Reilly, Kaitlin. 2023. "Should parents be paid? Here's why people say it's time to see the value in caregiving." yahoo!life
7. Rohde, K., A. Hoffman, K., A. Kreider, P. Gonalons-Pons, K. Miller, N. Coe. 2024. “Addressing Problems with Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services in the Age of Rebalancing.” Health Affairs.

Webinars

Compensating Care: How US Policy Can Support Family Caregivers. May 2, 2024. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Social Policy and Women of Color in the Global Women's Strike.

From Coronavirus and Beyond: Valuing Caregiving — The Unwaged Work that Protects People and the Environment, March 25, 2020. Co-sponsored by Women in Dialogue and International Black Women for Wages for Housework.

Quick Facts on the Value of Caregiving

• In 1995, the International Women Count Network, founded by Global Women's Strike, and supported by 1200 NGOs worldwide, won a UN Resolution directing governments to measure and count unwaged work in the home, on the land, and in the community and to include its value in the satellite accounts of their GDPs.

• If the value of household production (cooking, cleaning, watching children, etc.) had been included in the 2010 GDP, it would have added approximately $3.8 trillion to the US economy and raised the level of the nominal GDP nearly 26%. (Bureau of Economic Analysis)

• Women in the US spend at least 28.4 hours a week doing unpaid labor. If women were paid for this labor at the US average hourly rate of $29.81, they would earn $44,000 a year. (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)

• In the United States, at least 53 million people one-sixth of the population¾perform the difficult and vital role of family caregiving. (AARP)

• More than half of African American caregivers care for both an older person and a child under 18 or care for more than one older person. They spend an average of 20.6 hours a week providing care. In addition, 66% of African American caregivers are also employed full or part-time. (Family Caregiver Alliance)

• Caregiving responsibility falls most heavily on lower-income women: 52% of women caregivers, with incomes at or below $35,000, spend 20 hours a week or more each week providing unpaid care for loved ones. (Family Caregiver Alliance)

• For most older people in the US, care will come from family members or friends,who contribute approximately $600 billion worth of unpaid labor to the economy each year. Among those caring for an adult family member, 78% face financial strain because of regular out-of-pocket expenses $7,242 a year on average with the highest burden on those who are younger, Latinx or African American. (AARP)

• Family caregivers provide 80% of the care for ill or disabled people in the US, a total of $479 billion a year in unpaid services. More than 65 million people, 29% of the US population, provide this unpaid care. (AARP)

• More than 80% of mothers and unpaid family caregivers think that their contribution to society should be paid, for example, through a care income, and that they would be happier and/or a better mother/caregiver if they received the recognition and support of an income for caregiving. (What Mothers and Other Caregivers Want Survey)