What do we mean when we talk about productivity?
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss labour in the context of both work and motherhood: what the language of childbirth tells us about how mothers and their bodies are viewed today; how the language of production and reproduction is used in the public and private contexts of the workplace, in macroeconomics, in the labour ward and at home; and the current public debates about parental and domestic labour, the maternal pay gap and the 'productivity puzzle'.
With:
John Callanan, Reader in Philosophy at King's College London
Beth Malory, Lecturer in English Linguistics at University College London
Patrick Foulis, author and journalist
Corinne Low, Associate Professor of Economics at the Wharton School and author of Femonomics
Helen Charman, Fellow in English at Clare College, Cambridge and author of Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood
Producer: Eliane Glaser
