Kathleen Lynch is Professor Emerita of Equality Studies at University College Dublin and a Commissioner at the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.

Introduction

1 Care and Capitalism: Matters of Social Justice and Resistance



Part I Care Matters Inside and Outside Capitalism

2 Care as Abject: Capitalism, Masculinity, Bureaucracy, Class and Race

3 Making Love: Love Labour as Distinctive and Non-Commodifiable

4 Time to Care



Part II Challenges

5 Liberalism, Care and Neoliberalism

6 Individualism and Capitalism: From Personalized Salvation to Human Capitals

7 Care-Harming Ideologies of Capitalism: Competition, Measurement and Meritocratic Myths



Part III Violence - the Nemesis of Care

8 The Violation of Non-Human Animals

9 Violence and Capitalism



Part IV Conclusions

10 Resisting Intellectually, Politically, Culturally and Educationally
Postscript: Care Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic

"The force of this book demands that the reader viscerally engage with the destructive and life-threatening ideas, values, practices and consequences of capitalism and its servant neoliberalism, for human subjects, for non-human beings and the planet.... Lynch presents readers with a new language for social change."
Irish Times

"[A]n ambitious and impressive blockbuster [...]at once a scholarly exploration and review of many of the most important contributions to care theory over recent years, and an inspiring, manifesto-like call for action."
Michael D. Fine, International Journal of Care and Caring

"One of the most significant books I have read in years. Lynch challenges many of the key assumptions underpinning neoliberalism and the norms that guide it. At the same time, she provides powerful and insightful alternatives."
Michael W. Apple, Beijing Normal University and University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Kathleen Lynch brings her well-known understanding of care as affective relations to new realms. She deepens thinking about care's relation to violence and extending care to non-human animals. Most importantly, she explains why capitalism is so hostile to care at all levels."
Joan C. Tronto, University of Minnesota

"This beautifully written indictment of neoliberal capitalism articulates a new definition of justice that goes beyond unfair appropriation to call out failures to reward necessary contributions to the public good. Impressive scholarship and passionate intensity make this book a stellar addition to the emerging discourse of care."
Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts Amherst