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Date: January 25, 2000
CENTER
To: President Bill Clinton
FOR
WORKING
From: Prof. Arlie Russell Hochschild*
FAMILIES
"The Care Deficit"
2420 Bowditch Street, MC 5670
Berkeley, CA 94720-5670
In the remaining months of your Presidency, I suggest that you be the first
Tel (510) 642-7737
state leader to articulate a highly important but half-hidden truth about
Fax: (510) 642-7902
American society - its suffering a care deficit in its domestic and civic
life. This care deficit has led many to harden their attitude toward the
Email: [email protected]
down and out - immigrants, racial minorities, the poor. You can propose
http://workingfamilies.berkeley.edu
some specific policy remedies, and point the way toward a bigger, better
set of solutions which call for better - not smaller - government.
Co-Directors
What's the cause of the care deficit? In broad strokes, I think it is a
Artie Hochschild.
Department or Suciology
"pincher" effect of globalization. While globalization has led to many
Barrie Departments of
good things - e.g., more jobs and enhanced productivity - over the last
Sex when and Women's Studies
thirty years it has also impacted us doubly, in the economic and the care
CENTER FACULTY
sphere. In their analyses, economists often drop the care ball, and analysts
here of Economics
of care drop the economic ball. You need to focus on both simultaneously,
Namey Checkrow
as it is the joint effect of globalization on both spheres of life that creates
Department of Sociology
Claude Fischer,
the care deficit.
Department of Sociology
Evelve Nakano Clenn.
Departments of Women's Studies
The Economy Side: Globalization has widened the arena of competition,
and Elhnic Studies
broadly increased the power of companies and decreased that of workers
Mike Hout.
Department of Sociology
(who can more easily be replaced by other workers around the globe). But
bines Linculn.
it has also pressured companies to A) reduce real income and lower wage
Haas School of Business
levels for many, especially those in the expanding service sector, B) lower
Butro Nuguera.
School of Education
job security, and C) increase hours of work. So, according to a recent ILO
Andrew Scharlarh
School of Social Welfare
report, Americans are surpassing Japanese in hours of work by 70 hours a
Name & heyer-Hughes,
year. 19% of Americans report working more than 49 hours a week. Most
Department or Anthropology
working families these days are in a time bind. And with only 14% of
Card Stack.
School of Education
workers unionized these days, little seems to be shifting the direction of
Ann Swidler.
these trends.
Department of Sociology
LOK W.H quant.
Department of Sociology
The Care Side: We've seen a simultaneous decline in both the public and
Margaret Wer.
Department of Suciology
private supply of care. We've seen an end to welfare as we know it - a
CENTER ADVISORY BOARD
program which used to support women while they cared for their children.
Clair Brown.
Similarly, local tax revolts have lowered hours at libraries, eliminated
Department of Economics
summer recreation programs. The effort to reduce medical costs has led
Namey Chodorow,
of Securiogy
hospitals to release many patients soon after treatment to home care.
Dusk't.
of schology
he English.
School of tournal ism
Robert Levenng. Witer
Ardrew Schadach.
x not ON Sex Tal Welfare
Orville hell. Dran
So **** of known-dism
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