Tag: care work

The Soapbox: All Women Are Workers

Eleanor Penny brings you “The Soapbox” We usually think that work means employment in the formal economy. But domestic labour – done mostly by women, and mostly for free – is the most fundamental kind of work there is.
Labouring Through Birth and Death
Birth and death both demand complex, intensive care work; of the sort dismissed by capitalism and silenced by societal taboos. In this week's Long Read, Jenny Nelson explores the labour of the beginning and end of life.
4 Problems Affecting Home Care Sector Workers
There has never been a more urgent time to address the crisis of care work in the UK. Exhausted and despairing at the state of the social care sector, the author recently quit their job as a support worker/carer for a home care company.
5 Crises Facing the UK’s Care Homes
Care is in crisis - but what exactly is going on in the UK’s care system, and how might we begin planning ways to create a better future? Here, a care worker working with elderly people reflects on how the crisis is playing out in residential care homes.
7 Reasons the Midwives’ Strike Affects Us All
Midwives have taken the first two strikes in the Royal College of Midwives' history in quick succession, and are now undertaking industrial action. In this article an NHS student midwife argues that beyond the battle for pay and the NHS, the midwives' struggle is emblematic of the struggle against capitalism.
8 Reasons You Need to Care About the Caring Economy
When it comes to the care economy, women are hardly mentioned despite doing the vast majority of the work. With women's unemployment showing few signs of recovery and what little welfare provision existed being hollowed out, Polly Trenow from the Women's Budget Group argues priority needs to be given to the caring economy and the social infrastructure required to support carers.