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Demanding Quality: Worker/Consumer Coalitions and "High Road" Strategies in the Care Sector

Nancy Folbre

University of Massachusetts–Amherst

Paid care services such as child care, elder care, teaching, and nursing are vulnerable to competitive pressures that often generate low-pay/low-quality outcomes. Both workers and consumers suffer as a result. This article develops an economic analysis of the "care sector" that emphasizes the potential to build political coalitions that could push for a high-pay/high-quality alternative.

Key Words: care • contracts • workers • consumers • coalitions

Politics & Society, Vol. 34, No. 1, 11-32 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0032329205284754
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