{"id":2822,"date":"2020-06-23T14:57:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.american.edu\/careworkeconomy\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2020-12-28T18:49:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T18:49:48","slug":"unpaid-work-animated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/careworkeconomy\/blog\/2020\/06\/23\/unpaid-work-animated\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpaid Work, Animated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About half of all the time devoted to work in the U.S. is devoted to unpaid work in the home. The Institute for New Economic Thinking has created an adorable <span style=\"color: #800080\"><a style=\"color: #800080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I6xNW6K_RG0\">animation<\/a><\/span> of some comments I made in an interview with them on this topic a while back.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is Work? [Nancy Folbre]\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I6xNW6K_RG0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s quite a lot of fun, and basically accurate. Just don\u2019t pay too much attention to the numbers they inserted into my discussion of two families, each with a market income of $50,000\u2013the animation seems to imply that leisure should be assigned a monetary valuation\u2013not something I advocate. Still, the main point comes through just fine: conventional measures provide a misleading picture of living standards.<\/p>\n<p>The animation provides a great introduction to the topic for students, and you can find a more academic version of the basic argument in a short briefing <span style=\"color: #800080\"><a style=\"color: #800080\" href=\"https:\/\/equitablegrowth.org\/why-current-definitions-of-family-income-are-misleading-and-why-this-matters-for-measures-of-inequality\/\">paper<\/a> <\/span>I wrote for the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.<\/p>\n<p><em>Original blog published on CARE TALK: FEMINIST AND POLITICAL ECONOMY on June 11, 2020. See<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.umass.edu\/folbre\/2020\/06\/11\/unpaid-work-animated\/\"><span style=\"color: #800080\"> here<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.umass.edu\/folbre\/2020\/05\/27\/responsibility-time\/\">\u00a0<\/a>for the original posting. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reposted with permission from<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><span style=\"color: #800080\"><a style=\"color: #800080\" href=\"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/careworkeconomy\/blog\/expert\/nancy-folbre\/\">Dr. Nancy Folbre<\/a><\/span> from University of Massachusetts Amherst and an expert researcher for the Care Work and the Economy Project within the Rethinking Macroeconomics working group.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About half of all the time devoted to work in the U.S. is devoted to unpaid work in the home. The Institute for New Economic Thinking has created an adorable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[555,553,10],"tags":[575,604,621,620,624],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expert-dialogues-forums","category-feminist-economics","category-rethinking-macroeconomics","tag-child-care","tag-elder-care","tag-expert-dialogues","tag-institute-for-new-economic-thinking","tag-washington-center-for-equitable-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/careworkeconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/careworkeconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/careworkeconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/careworkeconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/careworkeconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/careworkeconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/careworkeconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/careworkeconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/careworkeconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.american.edu\/careworkeconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}