Care After COVID-19: Time for a U-turn?
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2021-07Autor
Martínez Franzoni, Juliana
Siddharth, Veena
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The post-pandemic reconstruction period could be an ideal time to make a U-turn from
a ‘low-road strategy’ of undervalued and precarious care work to a ‘high road strategy’
that provides high quality, universal, publicly-funded care services, and creates well-paid
decent employment for care workers.1
Through investing in care, as a core component of
social infrastructure and employment generation, governments can be better prepared
for shocks, avoid deleterious impacts on families, and enable societies to emerge intact
from the next crisis. On their own, shocks do not usually result in progressive change. For
the pandemic to foster a significant reorganization of care, a broad group of stakeholders
must form strategic alliances with a clear vision that understands the current care crisis
as a social crisis with significant fiscal implications—rather than a fiscal crisis with severe
social consequences.
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