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This article addresses the critical role of working-class women\u2019s various forms of paid and unpaid care work in responding to the material and immaterial needs of impoverished individuals and working-class households. It is shown that women\u2019s care-based responses and distributive struggles sought to minimise the risks that the agency of those they cared for could be compromised in the present and the future. 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