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global care chain work  

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  • Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild first used the term global care chain to describe the export of care work from low-income nations to high-income nations. Care work is the work of attending to others through the provision of physical, moral, and emotional support. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Global Care Chain Work]

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