Program

Thursday, November 15, 2018
Location: Amado Recital Hall

6:00 PM               CARE Documentary Screening

7:30 PM               Panel and Q&A:

• Leydis Muñoz (National Domestic Workers Alliance)
• Lolita Owens (United Home Care Workers of PA)
• Amy Cohen (Hand in Hand)
• Tony Heriza (Producer Care Documentary)

 

Friday, November 16, 2018
Location: Stiteler Hall, Room B26

9:00 AM                Registration

9:30 AM                Opening Remarks

• Pilar Gonalons-Pons

9:40 AM                Community Agreements

• Jaira J. Harrington

9:50 AM                The Politics of Care: Ideology, Social Movements, and Policy (Part 1)

Moderator: Veronica Brownstone (University of Pennsylvania)

Speakers:

• Leydis Muñoz (National Domestic Workers Alliance)
• Katherine Eva Maich (Pennsylvania State University), “Law, Labor, and Intimate Space: Complications of Regulating Care”
• Jennifer Klein (Yale University), “Between Home and State: Care Workers and Labor Strategy for the New Open-Shop Era”
• Jaira J. Harrington (Villanova University), “Domestic Work in Global Perspective”

10:50 AM                Break

11:05 AM               The Politics of Care: Ideology, Social Movements, and Policy (Part 2)

Speakers:

• Gayle Kirshenbaum (Hand in Hand)
• Claudia Dominguez (Pennsylvania Domestic Workers Alliance)
• Pilar Gonalons-Pons (University of Pennsylvania), “Servants of Production”
• Allison Hoffman (University of Pennsylvania), “Reimagining the Risk of Long-Term Care”

12:15 PM              Lunch  (Location: McNeil Building, 2nd Floor Atrium)

1:30 PM                The Economies of Care: Labor, Inequalities, and the Structure of Caregiving (Part 1)

Moderator: Pilar Gonalons-Pons (University of Pennsylvania)

Speakers:

• Kialenah Stewart (United Home Care Workers of PA)
• Melissa Hodges (Villanova University), “Wages for Nurturant and Reproductive Care Workers: Individual and Job Characteristics, Occupational Closure, and Wage-Equalizing Institutions”
• Julia Ticona (University of Pennsylvania), “Trusted Strangers: Technology & Power in Online Markets for Care”

2:30 PM                Break

2:45 PM                The Economies of Care: Labor, Inequalities, and the Structure of Caregiving (Part 2)

Speakers:

• LaTonya Trotter (Vanderbilt University), “‘I’m the One Who Get’s Screamed At’: When Caring for Patients Means Taking Care of One’s Employer”
• Roberta Iversen (University of Pennsylvania), “Transforming Ideas about ‘Work’: Care Work and Other Work ‘Heart-Strings'”
• Norma Coe (University of Pennsylvania), “Who Pays for LTC, and How Much?”

4:00 PM                Break

4:15 PM                Keynote Talk

• Nancy Folbre (University of Massachusetts), “Care Penalty/Power Premium”

5:30 PM                Closing Reception  (Location: McNeil Building, 2nd Floor Atrium)