Despite the advance of marketisation, Bunting notes, swathes of the care economy remain hidden and its currency of time, attention, empathy, respect, tact, trust, dignity, discretion, reciprocity and solidarity is undervalued. She shows that care relies simultaneously on expertise and matriculated skills, and on tacit knowledge, the power of touch and wordless reassurance. These different aspects of care are not always successfully conjoined. The provision of care can be routine and repetitive, but at the same time attentive and compassionate. Care takes place in the interstices of the quantifiable and the ineffable. Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (UB 40; 'Labour of Love ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 11 March 2019. Otterson, Joe (April 15, 2020). "Kristin Davis to Host Unscripted Pregnancy Dating Series Labor of Love at Fox". Variety . Retrieved May 4, 2020. David Lyons, Martin Freeman’s character, is parachuted into a safe seat in 1990, his old Nottinghamshire patch. I’ve only been in office for a year – I succeeded Jo Cox as MP for Batley and Spen, an area I’ve known my whole life. I’ve got no idea how anybody could represent a place they either didn’t grow up in or don’t know very well. Sculptor Luke Perry’s medical worker, installed at a park near Birmingham, a tribute to care workers during the coronavirus pandemic. Photograph: Jacob King/PA

The play was sophisticated enough to recognise that it is not the case that there is one group of people in the Labour party who have principles and one group who want power. It showed that every Labour person has a bit of both. It was interesting that the leader of the council couldn’t do anything without Labour being in government because the council was being starved of funds – and of course we’re seeing that happen again. This is a beautifully written book, full of insight and humanity. It asks important questions about the deficit of care in our society, to which there are no easy answers.

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The testimonies she gathers constantly confirm what is meant by “good” care . Listening, her interviewees say, is nine-tenths of the job. Care is about attentiveness. It needs time and focus, and trust. It is not always about action; it is often wordless. It cannot easily be measured. Care, in other words, is often beyond price. Yet in a modern, industrialised society like ours, with an increasing population, it must often be paid for and given to us by those we do not know. Women’s work in the care economy is governed, according to Bunting, not by Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ but by the ‘invisible heart’. Historically, at least, the vast care economy was confined to the home and overlooked and unmeasured by economics, despite its centrality to the reproduction of capitalist enterprise. Today, the ‘care sector’ is a fast-growing part of the economy and increasingly in the hands of the private sector: ‘Care has become a thing, subject to consumers’ desires, and available as part of a monetary transaction’ (25). Care is for sale. It is a business opportunity. Consumerism rules. A nurse tells Bunting this breeds a ‘culture of entitlement’.

Like David Lyons, I have one of the supposedly safest seats in the country. I’d been the candidate for two weeks when I was told the people of Tottenham would vote for a donkey if you put a red bow on it. Lyons is told the people of Mansfield would vote for a tub of cottage cheese if it had a red rose on it. But still, on election night, I always think I’ve lost. All of it counts for nothing when the ballot papers are being counted. I remember watching Oona King lose her seat after the Iraq war. The play captures that feeling, the vulnerability of the candidate. Nothing is safe at that moment. Bunting believes, as do her interviewees, that the urge to care is innate in human beings. It works reciprocally and is a therapeutic use of the self. Vulnerability, she writes, is a form of connection. One of the prompts for the book was her own experience of loss of control and autonomy as a young mother, caring for a newborn while her father gradually died. Her fantasy of complete independence collapsed. Her feminism needed to be rethought. Dutch album certifications – UB 40 – Labour of Love" (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers . Retrieved 10 June 2019. Enter Labour of Love in the "Artiest of titel" box. Select 1984 in the drop-down menu saying "Alle jaargangen". Michael Schneider (September 8, 2021). "Fox Alternative Boss on The Masked Singer COVID Cases, Fate of Lego Masters, and Canceling Labor of Love". Variety . Retrieved September 8, 2021. New Zealand album certifications – UB40 – Labour of Love". Recorded Music NZ . Retrieved 10 June 2019.

The play is a love story between two individuals but also looks at each character’s relationship with the party. I fell out with Labour most recently when it took a very different position to me on Brexit – I felt like a stranger in my own party. Like any sort of marriage, there are ups and downs, moments when you can feel quite estranged. And to govern, you do need a broad church. All political parties are a coalition of interests, especially in a two-party system. During the good times, it all comes together, but during the tough times you can be at war among yourselves.

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On September 8, 2021, it was revealed that the series was officially cancelled. [6] Contestants [ edit ] There were some things that just felt wrong. I think the idea that the majority of work for a Labour MP in a northern constituency is “dog shit” – as they say – is just wrong. The constituents have so many problems – yes, parks that are unusable, pavements that are fouled – but there are more problems than just dog shit, and it trivialised that. Bunting argues that ‘care is the feminist issue’ (3) because its burdens fall unevenly on (some) women. She identifies the particular fate of the middle-aged woman still caring for her children and, at the same time, for elderly relatives. Care, traditionally, was the work of women because ‘caring is engrained in the definition of what it is to be a woman, a wife, a mother, sister and daughter’ (16). We need more portraits of politics that are local and regional. The strength of our system is that, unlike American senators, we are not just politicians, we are representatives – and we represent a place zealously. I thought Graham did well to convey a real sense of place – Nottingham, over the last 25-odd years, is brought home to us. Graham, like me, is proud of the part of the world he comes from. There are points of detail that only someone from a former coal-mining community could possibly know. It takes us away from the chattering classes and the north London dinner parties and helps us to understand post-Brexit Britain and those who voted leave. Campbell, Ali; Campbell, Robin (2006). Blood & Fire: The Autobiography of the UB40 Brothers. Random House. p.102. ISBN 978-0-09947-654-2.