{"id":30019,"date":"2019-01-01T10:03:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T18:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=30019"},"modified":"2019-01-24T09:44:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:44:35","slug":"a-prison-of-love-exploitation-and-the-promotion-of-care-ethics-for-female-care-workers-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/a-prison-of-love-exploitation-and-the-promotion-of-care-ethics-for-female-care-workers-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u201cPrison of Love\u201d: Exploitation and the promotion of \u201ccare ethics\u201d for female care workers in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UO geographer Yi Yu, the 2017-18 CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow, will give a presentation on her research titled \u201cPrison of Love:\u201d Exploitation and the promotion of \u201ccare ethics\u201d for female care workers in China<\/em>. The talk will take place on Wednesday, January 23 at 4 pm in the EMU Miller Room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yi Yu<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This talk is free and open to the public. It kicks off the 2019 UO LERC Labor Research Colloquium.  The Colloquium brings together faculty and graduate students from a wide range of disciplines to focus on issues of economic justice and power relations in the workplace.  Ms. Yu\u2019s talk links feminist geography with emotional labor, guilty feelings and the promotion of professional \u201cethics\u201d in a critical examination of gendered labor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full talk description follows below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yi Yu, PhD, Department of Geography<\/strong>
A \u201cPrison of Love\u201d:  Exploitation and the promotion of \u201ccare ethics\u201d for female care workers in China.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feminist geographers and employers alike have called for an ethics of attentiveness, responsibility, and responsiveness in care work.  But how do these demands for intensive emotional labor shape the working conditions \u2013 and the self-concept \u2013 of the women who do this work?  This talk reports on empirical research in Shanghai and Beijing to challenge the call for low-wage, high-guilt emotional labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UO geographer Yi Yu, the 2017-18 CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow, will give a presentation on her research titled \u201cPrison of Love:\u201d Exploitation and the promotion of \u201ccare ethics\u201d for female care workers in China. The talk will take place on…<\/p>\n

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