Love and Gold

Love and Gold is one of the most readable explanations of global care chains. Through the story of a Filipina mother working as a nanny in the United States, Hochschild shows care moving like a commodity chain: one household’s care deficit is filled while another household’s care deficit is created.

The piece works well beside Global Woman and Parreñas’s research. It helps readers see care drain not only as an economic issue, but as a transfer of motherhood, emotion, intimacy, and global inequality.