Jennifer Nedelsky is a Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. She was previously Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Toronto and Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Social Justice, Sydney, Australia. She is also the author of Law's Relations (Oxford, 2011).
Tom Malleson is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Justice & Peace Studies at King's University College at Western University. Their work focuses on real utopias, egalitarianism, feminism, and radical democracy. They are Coordinator of the Real Utopias Project. Their recent books include After Occupy: Economic Democracy for the 21st Century and Against Inequality: The Practical and Ethical Case for Abolishing the Superrich. They are also a longtime social justice activist and organizer.

• Acknowledgments


• Preface


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Care


• Chapter 2: Work


• Chapter 3: Transitioning


• Chapter 4: Feasibility


• Conclusion


• Works Cited


• Index

In Part-Time for All, Jennifer Nedelsky and Tom Malleson propose a plan to radically restructure both work and care and offer a solution to a fundamentally dysfunctional imbalance of work and care obligations. They argue that no competent adult should do paid work for more than 30 hours per week, and everyone should also contribute roughly 22 hours of unpaid care to family, friends, or their chosen community of care. While such a transformation would require radical changes to our cultural norms as well as to our workplace practices, this book carefully dissects the current crisis of care and offers a realistic plan forward.