Transforming Care Conference

The theme is Time in Care: The Temporality of Care Policy and Practices. Time plays a key role in the regulation of care provision, both in formal and informal care. It is not by chance that New Public Management, in an attempt to govern, shape, assess care practices emphasizes a tight control of the time for care provision, its allocation, organization, ordering. The quest for a balance between care responsibilities and paid work can be seen as a demand for time. The division of time for care and for work according to class, gender and ethnicity lines is a core issue to understand interdependencies and inequalities and to device policies to counterbalance them.