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1  1 Since the early 1980s, the richest 1 per cent have received more than double the income of the bottom half of the global population, while the richest 1 per cent have consumed twice as much carbon as the bottom 50 per cent since the mid-1990s. The growing gap between rich and poor builds on and exacerbates the existing racial and gender inequalities (Oxfam 2021: 3).

2  2 Worldwide, billionaires’ wealth increased by a staggering US$3.9 trillion between 18 March and 31 December 2020. Their total wealth at the time of writing stands at US$11.95 trillion, which is equivalent to what G20 governments have spent in response to the pandemic. The world’s ten richest billionaires have collectively seen their wealth increase by US$540 billion over this period (Oxfam 2021: 11).

3  3 Capitalocentrism was defined by Gibson-Graham in 1996. It refers to the way that different ‘economic relations are positioned as either the same as, a complement to, the opposite of, subordinate to, or contained within “capitalism”’ (Gibson-Graham, Cameron and Healy 2016: 193).

4  4 ‘No hard-and-fast line can be drawn between our own selves and the selves of others, since our own selves exist and enter as such into our experience only in so far as the selves of others exist and enter as such into our experience also. The individual possesses a self only in relation to the selves of the other members of his social group’ (Mead 1934: 164).

5  5 This was expressed passionately by one of the mothers in the Affective Equality research: ‘It is something that if you didn’t have it to do … I mean it is part of your life. I mean if someone told me in the morning your job is gone, I would go, I will get another job, so be it! But if someone told me in the morning I didn’t have to care for my kids or I didn’t have them or something were to happen to them, I would scream, I would go to pieces, I really would!’ (Clodagh, a mother of three primary-school children, in Lynch, Baker and Lyons 2009: 65–6).

6  6 Bearing in mind that millions of people are stateless due to war, displacement and enforced migration.

7  7 His work in the Harvard Zero project was further enhanced by Goleman’s research (1995) on emotional intelligences.

8  8 I published a paper in The Sociological Review (Lynch 1989a) on love labour, the original title of which was ‘Love labour: Its nature and marginalisation’. However, both the editor and reviewers at the time thought that the use of ‘love’ in an academic article was ‘over the top’ (their words), so it was changed to ‘Solidary labour: Its nature and marginalisation’ although it was about love rather than solidarity.

9  9 It is time to name women as ‘founding mothers’ just as sociology identifies the canon with its ‘founding fathers’, generally Durkheim, Weber and Marx.

10 10 Reared on a farm in the West of Ireland, I was keenly aware that women had two jobs: unlike men, they worked both ‘inside and outside’, a phrase used regularly by women living and working in farm households. Yet their inside work was not named as productive. Not only was women’s care work and domestic labour not recognized in monetary terms, the work they did on the farm was not fully counted for much of the twentieth century. While men were counted in agricultural surveys as one unit of labour, women working on farms counted as a percentage of men’s labour (equal to that of a young teenage boy). Yet women did equal amounts of farm work and most of the caring and household service work for the family.