Care leaves and care time for all: Towards caring democracies, economies, and worlds
Join this event to hear Peter Moss discuss his upcoming book 'Care Leaves and Care Time for All: Towards Caring Democracies, Economies, and Worlds'.
Care leaves and care time for all: Towards caring democracies, economies, and worlds
12 Mar 2026, 12:00 – 13:30
Leave for caring has become a key policy in welfare states in many countries. The seminar, taking the title of a new book, will describe the evolution of leave policies, analyse their current state and main issues, and present the book’s three ‘bold, but modest proposals’ for their future direction involving three shifts: towards the temporal and social-ecological, inclusiveness, and a new conceptual framework.
Taken together, these shifts would move leave policies towards a lifecourse approach and being re-conceptualised as a universal social entitlement – a turn away from leave from employment towards leave to care for others, for self and for communities and ecological worlds. This thinking about a possible future direction for leave policies is framed by the writing of care scholars, especially Joan Tronto, with her concepts of care as a relational ethic and caring democracies.
This event will be particularly useful to researchers, policy makers, teachers and students.
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Peter Moss
Emeritus Professor
UCL Institute of Education
Peter Moss is an Emeritus Professor at UCL Institute of Education and has been part of TCRU since 1973. His interests include early childhood education, democracy and education, and the relationship between care, employment and gender, including leave policies; in 2003, he was the co-founder of the International Network on Leave Policies. His latest book, Care leaves and Care Time for All, co-authored with Professor Andrea Doucet, is published at the end of April by Policy Press.
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