Childcare Struggles Maternal Workers and Social Reproduction

<p>Spanning the United Kingdom United States and Australia this comparative study brings maternal workers' politicized voices to the centre of contemporary debates on childcare work and gender.</p><p> The book illustrates how maternal workers continue to organize against low pay exploitative working conditions and state retrenchment and provides a unique theorization of feminist divisions and solidarities.</p><p> Bringing together social reproduction with maternal studies this is a resonating call to build a cross-sectoral intersectional movement around childcare. Maud Perrier shows why social reproduction needs to be at the centre of a critical theory of work care and mothering for post-pandemic times.</p>