Care Leaves and Care Time for All

Towards Caring Democracies, Economies, and Worlds
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-4473-7527-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 125 mm x 201 mm, Gewicht: 205 g

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

What if care was at the heart of how we organise our societies and economies? This timely book explores how care leave policies can help build and sustain caring democracies, economies and worlds.

Bringing together international research and policy analysis – and inspired by the work of Joan Tronto and other leading care thinkers – Care Leaves and Care Time for All offers a bold, yet modest, proposal for transforming care leave policies. It reimagines paid care leaves as universal social entitlements across the life course providing care time for children and elders, for self and others, and for our social and ecological worlds.

Amid growing care crises and other interconnected socio-economic and environmental challenges, this book issues an urgent call for a ‘global political awakening’ – one that centres and supports care giving, care receiving and care time for all.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doucet, Andrea

Moss, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: ‘Creating time and space for care'

1. Concepts: care, care time, caring democracies, caring economies,

and caring worlds

2. Contexts: care crises and a polycrisis

3.Care leaves across time: selective histories and key issues

4. A bold, yet modest proposal: care leaves and care time for all

5. Care entitlements: imagining caring democracies, economies,

and worlds

Conclusion: ‘We Need a Global Political Awakening’

Über Autor(innen)

Moss, Peter
Peter Moss is Emeritus Professor of Early Childhood Provision at UCL institute of Education, University College London, and co-founder of the international Network on Leave Policies and Research.

Andrea Doucet is Distinguished Professor at the Department of Sociology and the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, Brock University, and Honorary Professor at the UCL Social Research Institute, University College London.

Peter Moss is Emeritus Professor at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education, University College London.