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abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: <jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Purpose</jats:title><jats:p>The
    starting point of the paper is the meteoric rise of care and care work upon the
    societal and sociological agenda. Referring to Polanyi, the authors argue that
    this is the manifestation of a new phase of capitalist societalisation (<jats:italic>Vergesellschaftung</jats:italic>)
    of social reproduction in the form of an economic shift. The purpose of this paper
    is to discuss the societal organisation of care and care work and questions of
    inequality and justice.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Design/methodology/approach</jats:title><jats:p>The
    first part of the paper illustrates some facets of the economic shift in the field
    of care and care work. The second part reconstructs the societal organisation
    of care and care work in the private sector, state, third sector and private households
    from the mid-twentieth century in the context of questions of inequality and justice.
    The third part draws on the institutional logics perspective and French pragmatic
    sociology and the own case studies on home care agencies (HCA), residential care
    communities (RCC) and early child care (ECC) in Austria and Germany and shows
    how conflicting demands give rise to new questions of justice. The paper ends
    with a short conclusion.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Findings</jats:title><jats:p>The
    paper shows how the commodification and de-commodification of care and care work
    have changed over time and how the economic shift – illustrated in the case of
    HCA, RCC and ECC – is accompanied by conflicting demands and questions of justice.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title
    content-type="abstract-subheading">Originality/value</jats:title><jats:p>A Polanyian
    perspective on the relation between market and society is combined with the neo-institutionalist
    and pragmatic idea that orientations rooted in the “logics” of the market, the
    state, the family and the profession influence how conflicting demands in elder
    and child care are dealt with and how questions of inequality and justice arise.</jats:p></jats:sec>
alternative_title:
- Elder and child care between market, state, profession, and family and questions
  of justice and inequality
author:
- first_name: Brigitte
  full_name: Aulenbacher, Brigitte
  last_name: Aulenbacher
- first_name: Fabienne
  full_name: Décieux, Fabienne
  last_name: Décieux
- first_name: Birgitt
  full_name: Riegraf, Birgitt
  id: '22563'
  last_name: Riegraf
citation:
  ama: 'Aulenbacher B, Décieux F, Riegraf B. Capitalism goes care: Conflicting Demands
    and Some Questions of Inequality and Justice. <i>Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
    An International Journal</i>. 2018;37(4):347-360. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/edi-10-2017-0218">10.1108/edi-10-2017-0218</a>'
  apa: 'Aulenbacher, B., Décieux, F., &#38; Riegraf, B. (2018). Capitalism goes care:
    Conflicting Demands and Some Questions of Inequality and Justice. <i>Equality,
    Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal</i>, <i>37</i>(4), 347–360.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/edi-10-2017-0218">https://doi.org/10.1108/edi-10-2017-0218</a>'
  bibtex: '@article{Aulenbacher_Décieux_Riegraf_2018, title={Capitalism goes care:
    Conflicting Demands and Some Questions of Inequality and Justice}, volume={37},
    DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/edi-10-2017-0218">10.1108/edi-10-2017-0218</a>},
    number={4}, journal={Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal},
    publisher={Emerald}, author={Aulenbacher, Brigitte and Décieux, Fabienne and Riegraf,
    Birgitt}, year={2018}, pages={347–360} }'
  chicago: 'Aulenbacher, Brigitte, Fabienne Décieux, and Birgitt Riegraf. “Capitalism
    Goes Care: Conflicting Demands and Some Questions of Inequality and Justice.”
    <i>Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal</i> 37, no. 4 (2018):
    347–60. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/edi-10-2017-0218">https://doi.org/10.1108/edi-10-2017-0218</a>.'
  ieee: 'B. Aulenbacher, F. Décieux, and B. Riegraf, “Capitalism goes care: Conflicting
    Demands and Some Questions of Inequality and Justice,” <i>Equality, Diversity
    and Inclusion: An International Journal</i>, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 347–360, 2018,
    doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/edi-10-2017-0218">10.1108/edi-10-2017-0218</a>.'
  mla: 'Aulenbacher, Brigitte, et al. “Capitalism Goes Care: Conflicting Demands and
    Some Questions of Inequality and Justice.” <i>Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
    An International Journal</i>, vol. 37, no. 4, Emerald, 2018, pp. 347–60, doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1108/edi-10-2017-0218">10.1108/edi-10-2017-0218</a>.'
  short: 'B. Aulenbacher, F. Décieux, B. Riegraf, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
    An International Journal 37 (2018) 347–360.'
date_created: 2026-07-06T11:53:23Z
date_updated: 2026-07-07T16:59:49Z
doi: 10.1108/edi-10-2017-0218
intvolume: '        37'
issue: '4'
language:
- iso: eng
page: 347-360
publication: 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal'
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 2040-7149
publication_status: published
publisher: Emerald
status: public
title: 'Capitalism goes care: Conflicting Demands and Some Questions of Inequality
  and Justice'
type: journal_article
user_id: '22563'
volume: 37
year: '2018'
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