Show Notes
What are the human costs of caring labour? Where does this labour take place, who takes it on and how can we best study it?
Shirin M. Rai is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies SOAS, University of London. Dr Jayanthi Lingham is a Research Associate at the Centre for Care. They join Dr Remi Edwards to discuss Rai's recent book Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring.
Works referenced: Lingham & Johnston 2024 Budlender, 2010 Butler & Hoskyns, 2017 Cooper, 2014 Dowling, 2021 Elson, 1979 Federici, 1975 Fraser, 2016 Hirway & Jose, 2011 Katz, 2001 Mezzadri, 2022 Rai, Hoskyns & Thomas, 2014 Rai & True, 2020 Stevano et al, 2019 Bhattacharya, 2017 Waring, 1988
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