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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.

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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. Lynne Segal, Birkbeck, University of Londo Perrier's 'maternal worker power' built across workplaces and communities re-imagines childcare movement politics from an anti-racist, feminist perspective. The book expertly showcases social reproduction theory's potential as a powerful analytic lens. Susan Ferguson, Wilfrid Laurier University Using a new 'maternal worker' framework and well-researched case studies, Perrier captures the urgency for scholars and community activists to integrate the voices of waged and unwaged caregivers. The book successfully identifies theoretical and practical solutions to generate solidarity across gender, class and racial lines. Elizabeth Adamson, University of New South Wales

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Maud Perrier is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol.

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