Emily Kenway is a writer, researcher and former unpaid carer. She spent over a decade working on social justice issues including living wages and labour exploitation. Her first book, 'The Truth about Modern Slavery', was described as a 'powerful treatise' by the Guardian. Her new book, 'Who Cares: the hidden crisis of caregiving and how we solve it', has been commended by Lady Brenda Hale, Silvia Federici, the Sunday Times and more, and was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2023. It weaves her story of caring for her mother with in-depth investigation into unpaid caregiving. She is currently a doctoral scholar in social policy at the University of Edinburgh.
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Published in: ourEconomy: FeatureCheap labour and AI won’t fix our care crisis. Here’s a real solution
People are living longer, with more care needs. We must rebalance our relationship to work, the planet and each other
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhat do calls for ‘abolition’ really mean?
Demands to get rid of institutions like borders or policing sound utopian – but they're about improving things here and now
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisBorders, not traffickers, killed 46 people in Texas
From Essex to San Antonio, on land and at sea, migrants are suffering horrific deaths at the border. What’s it all for?
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionFixing the UK’s care crisis must be about more than government funding
Family and friends will always play a vital role caring for loved ones. So why is the debate about care policy...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InvestigationLost in translation: do anti-trafficking organisations reflect their employees' views on commercial sex?
What do staff at anti-trafficking organisations in the United Kingdom think about sex work? Are their personal...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureIt's time to get off the fence on sex workers’ rights
You cannot effectively combat human trafficking within the commercial sex sector without taking a stand on basic...
