Care giving and structural crisis: reproduction as the keystone of the so-called real economy

Abstract

In this text I analize the main factors behind the care giving crisis. I show that both the state and the markets have refused to address the premises and inequalities standing behind such crisis and have tried to mitigate it by promoting its externalization and internationalization. At a different level, the neoliberal management of the structural crisis during the past years worsens and perpetuates the care giving crisis through a re-privatization of reproduction in the aim of supporting the survival and enrichment of markets. This reminds us of the intimate link existing between the productive economy and the reproductive one, as well as of the centrality of care giving and reproduction within what many people insist in calling real economy.