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Published on: 30 September 2013

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Ed Ball's commitment to 25 hours a week free childcare is to be welcomed. But it fails to get to the core of a sexist economy which relies on care work being done for free 24 hours a day. Fiona Ranford makes the feminist case for a Basic Income.
Published in: openDemocracyUK
Not working enough? The morality of work in contemporary politics

Published on: 13 September 2013

Written by: JD Taylor All articles by JD Taylor

As Iain Duncan Smith blames the low paid for their poverty, is the left falling into the trap of embracing the ethic of the workhouse?

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