Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care

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White, Peter (April 15, 2020). "Fox Gives Birth To Kristin Davis-Hosted Reality Series Labor Of Love From Propagate & Full Picture". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved May 4, 2020. The wife was a two-dimensional character who was so unpleasant it was misogynistic. At the end, the male MP gives his female agent papers to be the candidate and says she can step forward. But the way women have become MPs in Labour over the years is by struggling for it. They haven’t been gifted it by men who fancy them.

We need more portraits of politics that are local and regional. The strength of our system is that, unlike American senators, we are not just politicians, we are representatives – and we represent a place zealously. I thought Graham did well to convey a real sense of place – Nottingham, over the last 25-odd years, is brought home to us. Graham, like me, is proud of the part of the world he comes from. There are points of detail that only someone from a former coal-mining community could possibly know. It takes us away from the chattering classes and the north London dinner parties and helps us to understand post-Brexit Britain and those who voted leave. Following the record's success, UB40 have since released three further albums of cover versions under the Labour of Love title. What is equally striking is Graham’s fair-mindedness. He gives David every chance to restate Labour’s achievements under Blair, while admitting the excess caution of the first term: he also shows Jean, married to the seat’s previous working-class member, asserting traditional Labour values with Corbynesque fervour.

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Between the marketplace and rigid bureaucracy, where is the space for new models of care? Bunting notes that William Beveridge, original architect of the British welfare state, envisioned a role for ‘friendly societies’ – non-governmental providers – for the provision of healthcare. But this was a road not taken. Instead, a highly centralised national health service prevailed, which adopted a medicalised approach to care, valuing technical expertise over human values. Where this approach has resulted in poor care, such as in the notorious case of Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, health managers respond with programmes and associated performance indicators to promote compassion, as if this can be legislated and quantified. We’re facing a crisis in care likely to affect every one of us over the course of our lives. Care-work is underpaid; its values disregarded. Britain’s society lauds economic growth, productivity and profit over compassion, kindness and empathy. For centuries the caring labours of women have been taken for granted, but with more women now in work, with increasing numbers of elderly and with austerity dismantling the welfare state, care is under pressure as never before. Andreeva, Nellie (August 21, 2017). " Labor Of Love Reality Series About Women's Quest To Have A Child In Works At Fox". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved May 4, 2020. Bunting believes, as do her interviewees, that the urge to care is innate in human beings. It works reciprocally and is a therapeutic use of the self. Vulnerability, she writes, is a form of connection. One of the prompts for the book was her own experience of loss of control and autonomy as a young mother, caring for a newborn while her father gradually died. Her fantasy of complete independence collapsed. Her feminism needed to be rethought.

Short sections between chapters on the history of individual keywords – care, empathy, kindness, compassion, pity, dependence, suffering – offer food for thought. As Labours of Love progresses, we learn to listen. Bunting draws on an impressive range of quotation and argument, from Rilke to Paula Rego; from Walt Whitman (who worked in the crowded military hospitals during the American civil war) to Martha Nussbaum and feminist philosophers of care.New Zealand album certifications – UB40 – Labour of Love". Recorded Music NZ . Retrieved 10 June 2019. a b Considine, J.D. (19 January 1984). "UB40 – Labour of Love". Rolling Stone. No.413. p.61. Archived from the original on 27 December 2007. In his earlier play, This House, Graham went inside the whips’ office to show very salt-of-the-earth Labour folk for whom it was all trench warfare, but who felt uncomfortable with Westminster. In Labour of Love, Jean Whittaker – the agent played by Tamsin Greig – barely even goes to Westminster, but she plays just as important a role as David Lyons. There are details that only someone from a former coal-mining community​ could possibly know On September 8, 2021, it was revealed that the series was officially cancelled. [6] Contestants [ edit ] Politics is based on relationships. They’re behind the theory, policy and ambition. We hear a lot about spin doctors, special advisers and mandarins, but at the centre of Labour of Love there is an MP and his agent. That partnership is central to our political system.

The play was sophisticated enough to recognise that it is not the case that there is one group of people in the Labour party who have principles and one group who want power. It showed that every Labour person has a bit of both. It was interesting that the leader of the council couldn’t do anything without Labour being in government because the council was being starved of funds – and of course we’re seeing that happen again. Sculptor Luke Perry’s medical worker, installed at a park near Birmingham, a tribute to care workers during the coronavirus pandemic. Photograph: Jacob King/PA This is a beautifully written book, full of insight and humanity. It asks important questions about the deficit of care in our society, to which there are no easy answers. In Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care, Madeleine Bunting is revealed as an astute observer of the often invisible world of care and its attendant imprecisions, deficits and exploitations. The book draws on Bunting’s personal experience of care – mainly as a giver, it seems – but also rests on accounts of care given and received in a variety of settings by professionals and others. Midwives, district nurses, ward sisters, GPs and chaplains, together with those caring for relatives, are all given a voice. Stories of discrete sacrifices and kindnesses appear throughout the book. The main chapters of the book are separated by rich etymological investigations into words we use freely but which are morally and sociologically conflicted: care, empathy, kindness, compassion, pity, dependence, suffering. The only women depicted are the MP's wife, or the woman who works for him … I've lost patience with thatTaylor, Jordyn (July 17, 2020). "Kristy Katzmann From Labor of Love Reveals What Happened With Kyle Klinger". Men's Health . Retrieved February 28, 2022. Young, Graham (3 February 2016). "See UB40 stars return to the Red Red Wine Eagle & Tun pub". Birmingham Mail . Retrieved 12 October 2017. Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (UB 40; 'Labour of Love ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 11 March 2019.

Also, I can’t bear to see yet another depiction of that Labour period – after the transformations of the 1980s – that says nothing about the change in women’s lives. Once again, I had to sit there watching as the only women depicted are the MP’s wife, or the woman who works for him. Actually, a huge part of New Labour getting into power was because women changed their votes. Once again, this was looked at through traditional male eyes and I’ve lost patience with that. These essential, existential questions are at the heart of Labours of Love. Madeleine Bunting’s book could easily have become either a furious polemic or a vale of tears. It is neither, though it is angry and very moving. She meant it as a warning in the face of “a crisis of unprecedented proportions” in the provision of health and social care across the UK. With the advent of the coronavirus, its eloquent plea for change has become even more urgent. The testimonies she gathers constantly confirm what is meant by “good” care . Listening, her interviewees say, is nine-tenths of the job. Care is about attentiveness. It needs time and focus, and trust. It is not always about action; it is often wordless. It cannot easily be measured. Care, in other words, is often beyond price. Yet in a modern, industrialised society like ours, with an increasing population, it must often be paid for and given to us by those we do not know. After filming ended, Katzmann dated the winner, Kyle Klinger, for a few months, but the couple broke up and Katzmann chose to pursue in vitro fertilization on her own. [5] Otterson, Joe (April 15, 2020). "Kristin Davis to Host Unscripted Pregnancy Dating Series Labor of Love at Fox". Variety . Retrieved May 4, 2020.Despite the advance of marketisation, Bunting notes, swathes of the care economy remain hidden and its currency of time, attention, empathy, respect, tact, trust, dignity, discretion, reciprocity and solidarity is undervalued. She shows that care relies simultaneously on expertise and matriculated skills, and on tacit knowledge, the power of touch and wordless reassurance. These different aspects of care are not always successfully conjoined. The provision of care can be routine and repetitive, but at the same time attentive and compassionate. Care takes place in the interstices of the quantifiable and the ineffable. There were some things that just felt wrong. I think the idea that the majority of work for a Labour MP in a northern constituency is “dog shit” – as they say – is just wrong. The constituents have so many problems – yes, parks that are unusable, pavements that are fouled – but there are more problems than just dog shit, and it trivialised that. Labor of Love is an American dating game show that aired on Fox from May 21 to July 16, 2020. The show was hosted by Sex and the City actress Kristin Davis and starred former The Bachelor season 11 contestant Kristy Katzmann. Over eight episodes, 15 men participated in challenges and dates that tested their parenting and personal skills. Those whom Katzmann found satisfactory advanced to the following episode, and at the end of the series, she decided – with the help of Davis – whether to choose one of the men to start a family with or not. [1] [2] The show began production in mid-2017. [3]