OxSID is delighted to host Warwick Professor Shirin Rai, who will be addressing the question of compensating for the cost of care, which is disproportionately carried out by women across the world.

The focus of the talk will be on the ground-breaking recognition and compensation of the intimate, gendered work of caring by family members for workers who became ill with lung diseases as a result of poor labour conditions in the mines in South Africa. It focuses on a recent decision by a court in South Africa (Nkala and Others v. Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited and Others, 2016) that took the unusual step of acknowledging this care work and attempting to compensate it indirectly. Prof Rai will explore who bears the cost of illness due to corporate negligence, and how such harm should be compensated.

The talk combines insights from political economy and law within a feminist framework to develop an argument about compensation for social reproductive work to address the harm experienced by the carers of mine workers.

As always the talk is free and open to all – see you there!