domestic labour

*** We apologise for any cross-posting***

*** We apologise for any cross-posting***

The Revista de Estudios Sociales (RES) of Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) kindly invites the academic community to submit articles for a special issue on the topic of “Digital intermediation in paid domestic work in Latin America”.

Longstanding feminist debates about the undervaluing and exploitation of caring labour came into focus in 2020, as the Covid pandemic closed schools and workplaces across the globe, and placed the lowest paid care workers on the frontlines of harm.

Longstanding feminist debates about the undervaluing and exploitation of caring labour came into focus in 2020, as the Covid pandemic closed schools and workplaces across the globe, and placed the lowest paid care workers on the frontlines of harm. This renewed and amplified interest in the politics, economics and social repercussions of care has moved beyond critique to alternatives conceptions of how care should be centred and interdependence celebrated.

Longstanding feminist debates about the undervaluing and exploitation of caring labour came into focus in 2020, as the Covid pandemic closed schools and workplaces across the globe, and placed the lowest paid care workers on the frontlines of harm. This renewed and amplified interest in the politics, economics and social repercussions of care has moved beyond critique to alternatives conceptions of how care should be centred and interdependence celebrated.

BOOK LAUNCH

ALL WELCOME!

18 January 2017

6pm

SH261 Senate House

The Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture is hosting the launch of Sara Pennell's The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850. Please RSVP directly to katie.carpenter.2010@live.rhul.ac.uk

by Danielle Teeuwen