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MillerComm Lecture Series

Android Dreams and Transnational Care Work

Friday, October 22nd, 2004
Nancy Folbre
4:00 pm

Room 314, Illini Union

1401 West Green Street

Urbana

Event Description

Nancy Folbre addresses the changing "care sector" of the economy, including the declining supply of unpaid labor and the difficulty of increasing labor productivity in jobs that require emotional and personal contact.  Efforts are underway to develop robots that can help meet the personal care needs of the elderly.  She explains why these efforts are unlikely to succeed and discusses alternatives, such as transnational migration of women from developing countries.  The solutions, however, pose problems of their own.

Hosted by: Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program

In conjunction with: Asian Law, Politics and Society Program, College of Law, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Center for Global Studies, Center for International Business Education and Research, College of Applied Life Studies, Cross-Campus Initiative on Aging, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics,  Department of Anthropology, Department of Community Health, Department of Economics, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of Human and Community Development, Department of Sociology, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Disability Research Institute, Division of Rehabilitation-Education Services, Gender and Women's Studies Program, Nursing Institute, School of Social Work

Nancy Folbre

Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts