Clarifying the difference between caring labor and caring affect informs debates about compensation and the valuation of care.

Care as relational process

Care has also been conceptualized as a relational process. Within a nurturance framework, care is understood as work directed toward sustaining and developing people through ongoing social relationships rather than as a series of isolated tasks. It is described as inherently relational, involving interaction between caregivers and recipients within broader structures of gender,

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