Table of Contents

• Foreword - Patricia Gouthro
• Introduction: More Than It Seems: Household Work and Lifelong Learning - Patrizia Albanese
• Chapter 1: What Is Housework? - Margrit Eichler
• Chapter 2: Learning through Household Work - Margrit Eichler with Ann Matthews
• Portrait: Dorica
• Chapter 3: Encounters with the Self: Disability and the Many Dimensions of Self-Care - Ann Matthews
• Portrait: Fang
• Chapter 4: ""Have You Had Your Meal Yet?"": Chinese Immigrants, Food-related Household Work and Informal Learning - Lichun Willa Liu
• Portrait: Mithreal
• Chapter 5: Choreographing Care: Learning through Unpaid Carework - Susan Ferguson and Margrit Eichler
• Portrait: Dee
• Chapter 6: The Case of Nannies: Shifting Unpaid Work onto Paid Work - Nicky Hyndman
• Conclusions - Patrizia Albanese
• Appendix 1: Methodological Overview - Ann Matthews
• Appendix 2: The WALL Project - D.W. Livingston
• Appendix 3: Mothers Are Women (MAW) - Kathryn Spracklin

About the Author

Margrit Eichler is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Patrizia Albanese is Associate Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University.

Susan Ferguson, Nicky Hyndman, Lichun Willa Liu, and Ann Matthews are graduate students at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Reviews

“This book shows that household work is undervalued and that the expertise needed to do it is unappreciated. It documents the wide range of skills and knowledge required to do household work and discusses how women and men actually learn to do all the myriad tasks involved in maintaining households and caring for the people who live in them.” —   Meg Luxton, Professor of Social Science and Women’s Studies, York University