Childcare Struggles, Maternal Workers and Social Reproduction
By Maud Perrier
Published
Feb 11, 2022Page count
148 pagesISBN
978-1529214925Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Feb 11, 2022Page count
148 pagesISBN
978-1529214932Dimensions
Imprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Feb 11, 2022Page count
148 pagesISBN
978-1529214932Dimensions
Imprint
Bristol University Press
Childcare Struggles, Maternal Workers and Social Reproduction
In the media
'Organising against fear: migrant nannies and domestic workers during COVID' in Migration Mobilities Bristol
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.
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.
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.
Maud Perrier is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol.
Introduction
1. Counter-Thinking from the Nursery: Theorizing Contemporary Childcare Movements
2. Selfish Strikers and Intimate Unions: Early Years Educators’ Walkouts and the Big Steps Campaign, Australia
3. Mothering the Mothers: Stratified Depletion and Austerity in Bristol, United Kingdom
4. At the Table or Thrown under the Bus: Migrant Nannies’ Organizing and Childcare Coalitions during the COVID-19 Pandemic
5. Maternal Worker Power
Pandemic Postscript
