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Rethinking Care: From Privatisation to Collective Solidarity

Since the 1970s, the UK has been experiencing a care crisis that has led groups and generations to compete over artificially scarce resources and shifted the responsibility onto households – primarily women. With the population set to age further in the decades to come, the ever-expanding marketisation of care must be replaced by a system based on solidarity.

Published in the Green European Journal, 28th September 2023.