Cover; Contents; Introduction; Poor-quality employment in homecare; Gender, class and the study of labour law; Research design and participants; Character narratives; 1 Cheap Nurse; Cheap Nurse and equal pay law; Sexism, sex discrimination and privatisation; Cheap Nurse and the regulation of care; The issue of equal pay in public-sector homecare; Privatisation as community trauma; Conclusion; 2 Two-a-Penny; Two-a-Penny and the protection of employment; Understanding low pay in homecare as an employment protection problem; A gendered difference of human interaction?; 3 Mother Superior.

Mother Superior and the national minimum wageCaring as a class issue; A Minimum Wage for all workers; Legal support for unpaid care work; 4 Choosy Suzy; Choosy Suzy and the Care Act; Care as enterprise; Gender and the reconstituting of home; Conclusion; References; Index.