Emily Kenway

Emily Kenway is a writer, researcher and former unpaid carer. She spent over a decade working on social justice issues including living wages and labour exploitation. Her first book, 'The Truth about Modern Slavery', was described as a 'powerful treatise' by the Guardian. Her new book, 'Who Cares: the hidden crisis of caregiving and how we solve it', has been commended by Lady Brenda Hale, Silvia Federici, the Sunday Times and more, and was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2023. It weaves her story of caring for her mother with in-depth investigation into unpaid caregiving. She is currently a doctoral scholar in social policy at the University of Edinburgh.