A Right to Care?

• Examines unpaid care work and paid employment, a topical and complex area of employment law, and provides an understanding of key policy issues and the legal problems involved
• Uses an interdisciplinary approach which brings together a range of sources from law, economics and social policy, placing the law in its wider context
• Provides a clear-cut policy solution to the problem of unpaid care work, involving the establishment of a right to provide care

Readership: Scholars and students of labour law, welfare law, family law, and care law; students and activists interested in social theory and social policy.

Nicole Busby, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Stirling

Nicole Busby is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Stirling. She has a special interest in European Labour Law, in particular in the areas of sex equality and discrimination.

"a rich and multi-disciplinary approah to the problem of the conflict between work and care." - Rikki Holtmaat, CML Rev. 2012

"This is a very welcome, important, and scholarly text." - Luke Clements, Journal of Law and Society

1: Introduction: Identifying the Work/Care Equation
2: Theoretical Perspectives on Work and Care
3: Paid Work and Unpaid Care: The Unsolved Conflict
4: Situating a Right to Care in Employment Law
5: EU Law and Policy: Balancing Paid Employment with Unpaid Care within a Market Order
6: The European Court of Justice: Conceptualising the Work/Care Equation
7: Regulating Unpaid Work in European Employment Law: The Capabilities Approach
8: Conclusions: A Right to Care?