Contribution to Book
Provisioning under austerity: an evolutionary strategy for meeting human needs through the next millennium
Varieties of Alternative Economic Systems Practical Utopias for an Age of Global Crisis and Austerity
(2017)
Abstract
This chapter considers how to meet the needs for eldercare under a condition of zero population growth necessary to address the environmental crisis. It points out that eldercare falls outside the dominant economic forms. It reviews the potential effect on eldercare of the standard proposals for post-capitalism based on quality, fairness of the distribution of care, fairness of the assignment of responsibility, and the level of care. It proposes building new institutions that would perform the functions traditionally performed by families, post-families, to provide necessary services and develop intergenerational relationships. Finally, it considers the challenges for implementing post-families.
Keywords
- alternatives to capitalism,
- feminism,
- care crisis,
- elder care,
- post-families,
- zero population growth,
- austerity
Disciplines
Publication Date
2017
Editor
Richard Westra, Robert Albritton, Seongjin Jeong
Publisher
Routledge
Citation Information
Barbara E Hopkins. "Provisioning under austerity: an evolutionary strategy for meeting human needs through the next millennium" Varieties of Alternative Economic Systems Practical Utopias for an Age of Global Crisis and Austerity (2017) p. 91 - 106 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/barbara_hopkins/19/