This BSA Work, Employment and Economic Life (WEEL) Study Group event took place online on Friday, 7 June 2024.
Speaker: Dr Sara R Farris, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Presentation and Discussion of "Corporatisation and Financialisation of Social Reproduction: Care Homes and Childcare in the United Kingdom," Sara R Farris, Amy Horton, and Eva Lloyd, Environment and Planning F, 2024.
This article compares ownership, business models, and workforces in UK childcare and adult social care, highlighting the dominance of large companies and financial strategies that benefit investors but harm access to care and worsen conditions for low-paid workers. It discusses corporatisation and financialisation, underpinned by the political economy of low wages for care work, using feminist social reproduction theory to explain the devaluation of feminised and racialised care labor.
