Duel of the Dualisms: Production and Reproduction Reconfiguring

The processes and mechanisms by which inequalities are produced and reproduced globally are serpentine and rapidly changing. The standard historical narrative that economic life left the household, leaving nurturance behind in a separate sphere of family, has moved to another stage. Thought to be separate spheres of work and family, of paid and unpaid work, a significant blurring is occurring. Work is more often unpaid. Nurturance is more often paid. Economic inequalities leak into and out of care inequalities. Relying on two of the author’s current research programs, on care migration and on life course effects of the Great Recession of 2008+, the duel and dance of the dualisms of production and reproduction in comparative contexts are explored.