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Care and the Extension of Markets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Virginia Held
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Abstract

Many activities formerly not in the market are being “marketized,” and women's labor is increasingly in the market. I consider the grounds on which to decide what should and what should not be “in” the market. I distinguish work that is paid from work done under “market norms,” and argue that market values should not have priority in education, childcare, healthcare, and many other activities. I suggest that a feminist ethics of care is more promising than Kantian ethics or utilitarianism for recommending social decisions concerning limits on markets.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Love and Work , Spring 2002 , pp. 19 - 33
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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