Labour Law and the Gender of Work

Care work is essential. And yet, Western capitalist societies are organised in a way as to neglect care work and make it invisible. Building on feminist critiques of labour law, this book analyses how private care work has been socially constituted as the Other in relation to work on labour markets. By bringing labour law, with its collective structures, into conversation with individual anti-discrimination law, it develops a solidaristic form of labour law that includes unpaid care work.It shows how the law can be used to challenge collective organisations’ understandings of work in order to integrate and accommodate the Other of labour law.