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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