Care Movement

The care movement is still new among social movements, even though it was called for more than 20 years ago: “We need a movement to demonstrate that caring is not a free resource, that caring is hard and skilled work, that it takes time and devotion, and that people who do it are making sacrifices” (Stone 2000; see also Engster 2010). Since then, care manifestos have been written, the Care Revolution network has been founded, strikes in the care sector have been called for, and much more. All of this indicates “that a global care movement is gaining momentum with the aim of drawing attention to care deficits and care crises, which are often caused by poor working conditions, low pay, and inadequate social security, and demanding urgently needed improvements” (Knobloch 2020a: 116 f.). An important part of this care movement are existing and newly emerging care networks, which can achieve even more by networking with each other (cf. Knobloch/Kleinert/Jochimsen 2022). The care movement is responding not only to the global care crisis(es), but also to the ecological crisis (cf. e.g. Winker 2021; FdN 2022).