Labours of Love
The Crisis of Care
$31.19
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2021
Summary
We’re facing a crisis in care likely to affect every one of us over the course of our lives. Care-work is underpaid; its values disregarded. Britain’s society lauds economic growth, productivity and profit over compassion, kindness and empathy. For centuries the caring labours of women have been taken for granted, but with more women now in work, with increasing numbers of elderly and with austerity dismantling the welfare state, care is under pressure as never before.
Over five years…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781783783816 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1783783818 |
| Author: | Madeleine Bunting |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Imprint: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 237g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Madeleine Bunting
Madeleine Bunting was for many years a columnist for the Guardian, which she joined in 1990. Bunting read History at Cambridge and Politics at Harvard. She is the author of many non-fiction books, including The Plot: A Biography of My Father’s English Acre, which won the Portico Prize, and Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey, which was shortlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize and the Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year. She has also written a novel, Island Song. She lives in London.
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