Health and Social Care Workers and the Crisis of Neoliberalism

Launched on 29 October, the Global Day of Action on Care, the following report was compiled and completed in the final months of 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic enveloped the globe. The report details the corporate frameworks and driving economic forces of international care industries.

It raises grave concerns about the nature of the economic models that, long before the pandemic hit, this report shows were already badly failing the vulnerable and those in need of care, with wholesale shifts from public to private for-profit health care provision.