Valuing care as work in a post-employment world
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Work, Care, InvisibilityAbstract
https://doi.org/10.1590/2179-8966/2025/88721
This text is based on the premise that care work is essential to the economy and society, although it has historically been rendered invisible. We argue that the devaluation (and often non-recognition) of care as work occurs because the capitalist mode of production values work (production for the market) rather than labor (maintenance and reproduction of biological life), in the sense proposed by Hannah Arendt. Thus, drawing from bibliographic and documentary research, this article aims to reflect on the division between labor and work, examining whether and how the legal structures within labor law and ongoing initiatives in Brazil are capable of establishing policies to care for those who care.
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