The Law of Care Work

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The care economy supplies basic needs for individuals and provides the human infrastructure for society, but care work often happens outside the regulated labor market, raising challenges for and beyond work law. How does the law conceptualize, compensate, and regulate care work? How does the law allocate the responsibility and costs of care? How does gender and race factor the law's treatment of care work? This course will examine these questions across various bodies of law, predominantly in the context of the United States. As a writing seminar, this course will develop the student's analytical writing capability through a series of writing assignments designed to break down the writing process into discernable steps, culminating in a longer paper on a topic relevant to this course.