Guillermina Altomonte

Guillermina Altomonte is a journalist and a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at The New School for Social Research. Her dissertation is an ethnographic study of the labor done by elderly patients, their families, and workers in health care institutions to collectively design and produce transitions in elder care under structural conditions that largely place this responsibility and its costs on individuals. As a Heilbroner fellow she will focus on theorizing the coproduction of care by paid and unpaid actors as they jointly sustain social reproduction. By foregrounding the work of negotiating projects and futures in transitional elder care in New York City, her goal is to expand existing definitions of care work and, more broadly, conceptions of labor in late capitalism.