Care Work

Care Work
Author: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Discrimination against people with disabilities
ISBN: 1551527383

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An empowering collection of essays on the author's experiences in the disability justice movement.

Care Work

Care Work
Author: Janet Boddy,Claire Cameron,Peter Moss
Publsiher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415347726

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Care work and care workers past, present and future are examined in this edited collection which guides readers through an introduction to care work towards a critical understanding of potential futures for the field.

Care Work

Care Work
Author: Madonna Harrington Meyer
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2002-05-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781135959579

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Care Work is a collection of original essays on the complexities of providing care. These essays emphasize how social policies intersect with gender, race, and class to alternately compel women to perform care work and to constrain their ability to do so. Leading international scholars from a range of disciplines provide a groundbreaking analysis of the work of caring in the context of the family, the market, and the welfare state.

Care Work and Care Jobs for the Future of Decent Work

Care Work and Care Jobs for the Future of Decent Work
Author: Laura Addati,International Labour Office
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Caregivers
ISBN: 9221316424

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The report analyses the ways in which unpaid care work is recognised and organised, the extent and quality of care jobs and their impact on the well-being of individuals and society. A key focus of this report is the persistent gender inequalities in households and the labour market, which are inextricably linked with care work. These gender inequalities must be overcome to make care work decent and to ensure a future of decent work for both women and men. The report contains a wealth of original data drawn from over 90 countries and details transformative policy measures in five main areas: care, macroeconomics, labour, social protection and migration. It also presents projections on the potential for decent care job creation offered by remedying current care work deficits and meeting the related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Valuing Care Work

Valuing Care Work
Author: Cecilia Benoit,Helga Hallgrimsdóttir
Publsiher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781442610927

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There are many forms of paid and unpaid labour encompassed in health care systems, including home care for the elderly or disabled, community health services, and the care family members provide for loved ones. Valuing Care Work is an international comparative study that examines economic organizations as well as intimate settings to show how personal service work is shaped by broader welfare state developments. To trace the relationships between gender, labour, and equity in health care, the essays in this volume analyse the rules and practices that shape care work. The contributors highlight how national configurations of the welfare state shape the gendering of paid and unpaid intimate labour in a range of settings and discuss how the policies and practices associated with neoliberalism have focussed on efficiency and accountability to the detriment of other policy agendas, including those that might further increase dignity and equity for both recipients and providers of paid and unpaid health care.

Care Work and Class

Care Work and Class
Author: Merike Blofield
Publsiher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2015-06-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780271058894

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Despite constitutions that enshrine equality, until recently every state in Latin America permitted longer working hours (in some cases more than double the hours) and lower benefits for domestic workers than other workers. This has, in effect, subsidized a cheap labor force for middle- and upper-class families and enabled well-to-do women to enter professional labor markets without having to negotiate household and care work with their male partners. While elite resistance to reform has been widespread, during the past fifteen years a handful of countries have instituted equal rights. In Care Work and Class, Merike Blofield examines how domestic workers’ mobilization, strategic alliances, and political windows of opportunity, mostly linked to left-wing executive and legislative allies, can lead to improved rights even in a region as unequal as Latin America. Blofield also examines the conditions that lead to better enforcement of rights.

Circles of Care

Circles of Care
Author: Professor of Health Services and Women's Studies Emily K Abel,Emily K. Abel,Margaret K. Nelson,Professor Margaret K Nelson
Publsiher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0791402630

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This work examines the experience of women providing care to children, disabled persons, the chronically ill, and the frail elderly. It differs from most writing about caregiving because it focuses on the providers rather than the care recipients. It looks at the experience of women caregivers in specific settings, exploring what caregiving actually entails and what it means in their lives

Gender Migration and the Work of Care

Gender  Migration  and the Work of Care
Author: Sonya Michel,Ito Peng
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2017-08-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9783319550862

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This book explores how around the world, women’s increased presence in the labor force has reorganized the division of labor in households, affecting different regions depending on their cultures, economies, and politics; as well as the nature and size of their welfare states and the gendering of employment opportunities. As one result, the authors find, women are increasingly migrating from the global south to become care workers in the global north. This volume focuses on changing patterns of family and gender relations, migration, and care work in the countries surrounding the Pacific Rim—a global epicenter of transnational care migration. Using a multi-scalar approach that addresses micro, meso, and macro levels, chapters examine three domains: care provisioning, the supply of and demand for care work, and the shaping and framing of care. The analysis reveals that multiple forms of global inequalities are now playing out in the most intimate of spaces.