ABSTRACT Foster carers’ recent unionisation and their campaign to be recognised as workers in the UK, will provide the basis to interrogate the public/private divide in this paper. I will argue that the rejection of foster carers’ claims that they are workers by English and EU courts, as well as by the previous Conservative Government, have problematically relied on traditional conceptions of care work belonging in the private sphere. This highlights the pervasiveness of the public/private divide, which is still thought to separate the work of family life, from ‘proper’ work, performed by those with a job. This paper will draw on the ethic of care to show that all caring labour is work, and could be protected by labour law. Even if the breadth of labour law is unchanged, foster carers’ work clearly straddles both spheres, so they should be protected.

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创造家庭生活的工作：寄养者和劳动法

摘要 Foster 照顾者最近的工会及其在英国被认可为工人的运动将为本文中询问公共/私人分歧提供基础。我将争辩说，英国和欧盟法院以及前任保守党政府拒绝寄养者声称他们是工人的说法，有问题地依赖于属于私人领域的传统护理工作概念。这凸显了普遍存在的公共/私人鸿沟，人们仍然认为这种鸿沟将家庭生活的工作与有工作的人所从事的“适当”工作区分开来。本文将借鉴关怀伦理，表明所有关怀劳动都是工作，都可以受到劳动法的保护。即使劳动法的范围没有改变，寄养者的工作显然跨越了两个领域，