This article will bring together the social glue concept of social reproduction and a feminist analysis of civil society to the study of nonprofit care work in order to cast analytic light on the dynamics of care work in the nonprofit sector and contribute to theorizing care work, to identify and theorize aspects of nonprofit care work which reproduce and sustain social glue, and to supplement theory on civil society. Drawing on qualitative interviews with nonprofit care workers in South Africa and Scotland, this article argues that care work, in general, and nonprofit care work, more specifically, are key components of civil society and central to the gendered social glue that holds societies together. We argue that nonprofit care workers are part a distinctive but porous set of social relations and have their own unique way of sustaining social bonds in the context of late neoliberalism. The article looks closely at three dynamics of social glue in nonprofit care work, namely, empowerment, emotional/personal costs, and unpaid work. We argue that nonprofit care workers find micro ways of resisting the erosion of social glue and reweaving the social fabric through care and relationship and further that these forms of resistance may sustain much needed social bonds until larger social transformation is possible.

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作为社会粘合剂的非营利护理工作：在紧缩/晚期新自由主义的背景下创造和维持社会再生产

本文将社会再生产的社会粘合剂概念和公民社会的女权主义分析结合到非营利护理工作的研究中，以便对非营利部门护理工作的动态进行分析，并有助于将护理工作理论化，识别和理论化非营利性护理工作中复制和维持社会黏合力的方面，并补充关于公民社会的理论。本文利用对南非和苏格兰非营利护理工作者的定性访谈，认为护理工作，更具体地说，是非营利护理工作，是公民社会的关键组成部分，也是将社会凝聚在一起的性别社会粘合剂的核心。我们认为，非营利性护理工作者是一组独特但漏洞百出的社会关系的一部分，并且在晚期新自由主义的背景下有自己独特的维持社会纽带的方式。这篇文章仔细研究了非营利护理工作中社会黏合力的三种动态，即授权、情感/个人成本和无偿工作。我们认为，非营利性护理工作者找到了抵制社会黏合力侵蚀并通过护理和关系重新编织社会结构的微观方法，此外，这些抵抗形式可能会维持急需的社会纽带，直到可能进行更大的社会变革。