Childcare Struggles, Maternal Workers and Social Reproduction by Maud Perrier is now out and available to order from Bristol University Press.

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.

Lynne Segal from Birkbeck, University of London said,  "In this vivid and persuasive text Maud Perrier offers a fascinating, if alarming, overview of the ever worsening conditions around childcare and social reproduction generally, with shrinking public funds and expanding corporate involvement leaving feminists, mothers and maternal workers challenged and divided. But she also suggests ways of building unifying solidarities to improve the lot of maternal workers everywhere, offering more emancipatory and egalitarian outcomes. This is an essential, path-breaking text for our time."

You can order the book with 20% discount from Bristol University Press or ask your librarian for access.

For review copies and press enquiries, contact: bahar.muller@bristol.ac.uk

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