journalArticle Economic Sociology of Work 18 Trabut Loïc Weber Florence How to Make Care-Work Visible? We seek to understand under which conditions care work emerges from shadow economy and becomes visible, either within families or in a professional frame, both at a political level and at the micro level of social perceptions. We analyze the recent history of French social policies devoted to dependent people and we use a study describing the members of 91 French families confronted, in 2004,with one of their elderly members' dependence. The French State subsidizing compensation for daily difficulties of dependent people leads to a surprising parallel between the rise of specific jobs and the public recognition of family care work. When looking at family structures, there is a huge difference between multiple-members families and trapped kin, erasing gender effect in this latter case. Family care work becomes more visible when there exists a professional equivalent: cleaning, doing the laundry, or washing the dependent person. Thus, male family care work when existing, such as home repairs or administrative tasks, remains invisible. ER - End of Reference 343-368 2009