Cuidado y responsabilidad

Abstract

The article offers an interpretative reading of the responsibilities associated with care work, based on experiences of live-in caregivers for the elderly in the Argentine capital. In particular, it focuses on responsibility as an assumption of a moral obligation towards the vulnerable. After providing information on this field of study and our preferred theoretical perspective, the relationships between responsibility and division of labor, between responsibility and care work and, finally, between care, responsibility, power and domination are analyzed successively. The article highlights the role of responsibility as an intrinsic part of care work, within the complexity of exploitation patterns that affect those engaged in it and in the context of unequal power relations.