In the book, she argued that the increasingly transactional recruitment of tissue donors and clinical research subjects in the commercial biomedical research sectors and the pharmaceutical industry closely resembles other kinds of low-level service labor in the contemporary economy, yet they are not recognised as labor, either within the industrial sector or by regulatory systems. It links women’s labor in the bioeconomy to earlier debates about domestic labor, and to current debates about contractualisation, outsourcing and human capital theory.
