Stories of Care: A Labour of Law. Gender and Class at Work
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 18051
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-49260-9
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137611154
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This approx. 100,000 word monograph draws on five years of in-depth ethnographic data collection with 30 care workers. It offers a critique of law from the perspective of an occupational group systematically denied protections routinely available to others. Examining the framing of equal pay law; the judicial doctrine by which employment protection is distributed across the labour market; the operation of the UK’s national minimum wage scheme; and the discursive construction of provisions in the Care Act 2014, it makes a distinctive claim that care workers are institutionally humiliated. It won the 2018 Hart-SLSA Prize for Early Career Researchers.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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