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2. Building community-centered social infrastructure: a feminist inquiry into China’s COVID-19 experiences
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Ying Chen, Zhongjin Li, and Yang Zhan
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O53 ,Economics and Econometrics ,Economic growth ,Original Paper ,Sociology and Political Science ,I18 ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Social infrastructure ,Developing country ,Community ,Care provision ,The COVID-19 pandemic ,State (polity) ,Political science ,Pandemic ,International political economy ,Care work ,Women ,China ,B54 ,Finance ,media_common - Abstract
The global COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the essential role of care work in sustaining life, health, and maintaining the basics of everyday existence. It has also made visible the disproportionate burden of care work on women that existed before the outbreak, which has intensified rapidly and been gravely exposed during the pandemic. In this article, we take China as a case study to investigate the gendered impact of this pandemic and further problematize the landscape of care provision. With a feminist political economy perspective, we introduce China's provisioning of care prior to the outbreak and investigate how the care crisis has further deepened in the pandemic. Drawing on the most recent data available on China's experience, we explore the role and function of community-centered social infrastructure, an assemblage of state, family, and local resources, in effectively combating the virus and providing care. We further provide comparative international evidence to demonstrate the essential role of community care infrastructure in this pandemic. Building social infrastructure to deliver care at the community level presents important policy implication, especially for many developing countries. Therefore, a critical reflection and discussion on pandemics and women is not only more vital than ever, but also sheds light on the endeavour to develop long-term solutions for the care crisis that will almost certainly outlive the current pandemic.
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- 2021
3. Promiscuous Possibilities: Regenerating a Decolonial Genealogy of Samoan Reproduction.
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Lopesi, Lana and Keil, Moeata
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NUCLEAR families ,DECOLONIZATION ,GENEALOGY ,IMPERIALISM ,FEMINISTS ,FEMINISM - Abstract
Most of the common ways of thinking about genealogical reproduction are influenced by colonialism and capitalism, which emphasize the importance of the nuclear family, heterosexuality and reproducing future citizens. Under colonialism and capitalism, Samoan women are disciplined into good reproductive laborers who reproduce the moral family and also wider society. This paper looks to Indigenous feminist discourse of regeneration to place Samoan reproductive labor outside of capitalism and within Indigenous feminist genealogies of world-building, asking what other promiscuous possibilities there are for Samoan regeneration. Here, we present a theoretical exploration: thinking with Indigenous feminism offers a decolonial intervention into Samoan reproduction, placing Samoan women's labor into an alternative genealogy of Indigenous feminist world-building and outside of colonially imposed genealogies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. Imperatives of recognising the complexities: gendered impacts and responses to COVID-19 in India
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Bina Agarwal
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ResearchInstitutes_Networks_Beacons/global_development_institute ,Economics and Econometrics ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,India ,Rural–urban ,Surveys & data gaps ,Political science ,Development economics ,media_common ,O53 ,Original Paper ,J16 ,Poverty ,Building back better ,COVID-19 ,Direct & indirect effects ,Livelihood ,O15 ,Global Development Institute ,Gender impact ,Social protection ,Economic recovery ,International political economy ,Domestic violence ,Care work ,Psychological resilience ,Finance - Abstract
This paper argues that the gendered impact of COVID-19 has both visible and hidden dimensions, and both immediate effects linked with lockdowns and longer-term effects that are likely to emerge sequentially in time and affect recovery. Much of the existing feminist literature on the impact of COVID-19 has neglected these complexities and focused mainly on care work and domestic violence. This has diverted attention away from other key concerns such as livelihood loss, food and nutritional insecurity, indebtedness, rising poverty, and the low resilience of most women in developing economies. Even care work and domestic violence have complex facets that tend to be missed. Using examples from India, the paper outlines the kinds of gendered effects we might expect, the extent to which these have been traced in existing surveys, and the data gaps. It also highlights the potential of group approaches in enhancing women’s economic recovery and providing social protection from the worst outcomes of the pandemic—approaches that could guide us towards effective policy pathways for ‘building back better.’
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- 2021
5. Who Cares for Agile Work? In/Visibilized Work Practices and Their Emancipatory Potential
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Alev Coban and Klara-Aylin Wenten
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Flexibility (engineering) ,Sociotechnical system ,Sociology and Political Science ,business.industry ,Care perspective ,05 social sciences ,0507 social and economic geography ,050905 science studies ,Transparency (behavior) ,ddc ,Philosophy ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Work (electrical) ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,Engineering ethics ,Care work ,Sociology ,0509 other social sciences ,business ,050703 geography ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Philosophy of technology ,Agile software development ,Original Research Paper ,Agile work ,Feminist science and technology studies ,Matters of care ,Emancipation ,Background work - Abstract
The future of work has become a pressing matter of concern: Researchers, business consultancies, and industrial companies are intensively studying how new work models could be best implemented to increase workplace flexibility and creativity. In particular, the agile model has become one of the “must-have” elements for re-organizing work practices, especially for technology development work. However, the implementation of agile work often comes together with strong presumptions: it is regarded as an inevitable tool that can be universally integrated into different workplaces while having the same outcome of flexibility, transparency, and flattened hierarchies everywhere. This paper challenges such essentializing assumptions by turning agile work into a “matter of care.” We argue that care work occurs in contexts other than feminized reproductive work, namely, technology development. Drawing on concepts from feminist Science and Technology Studies and ethnographic research at agile technology development workplaces in Germany and Kenya, we examine what work it takes to actually keep up with the imperative of agile work. The analysis brings the often invisibilized care practices of human and nonhuman actors to the fore that are necessary to enact and stabilize the agile promises of flexibilization, co-working, and rapid prototyping. Revealing the caring sociotechnical relationships that are vital for working agile, we discuss the emergence of power asymmetries characterized by hierarchies of skills that are differently acknowledged in the daily work of technology development. The paper ends by speculating on the emancipatory potential of a care perspective, by which we seek to inspire careful Emancipatory Technology Studies.
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- 2020
6. How can risk of COVID-19 transmission be minimised in domiciliary care for older people: development, parameterisation and initial results of a simple mathematical model
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Jo Middleton, Jackie Cassell, Yuliya N. Kyrychko, Wendy Wood, Julien E. Forder, Lavinia Bertini, Istvan Z. Kiss, Rebecca Sharp, Daniel Roland, Leanne Bogen-Johnston, and Konstantin B. Blyuss
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care workers ,Patterns of care ,Domiciliary care ,Original Paper ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Epidemiology ,Computer science ,Disease ,domiciliary care ,law.invention ,SEIR/D ,Infectious Diseases ,Transmission (mechanics) ,Infectious disease (medical specialty) ,law ,networks ,Care work ,Operations management ,Older people - Abstract
This paper proposes and analyses a stochastic model for the spread of an infectious disease transmitted between clients and care workers in the UK domiciliary (home) care setting. Interactions between clients and care workers are modelled using specially generated networks, with network parameters reflecting realistic patterns of care needs and visit allocation. These networks are then used to simulate a susceptible-exposed-infected-recovered/dead (SEIR/D)-type epidemic dynamics with different numbers of infectious and recovery stages. The results indicate that with the same overall capacity provided by care workers, the minimum peak proportion of infection and the smallest overall size of infection are achieved for the highest proportion of overlap between visit allocation, i.e. when care workers have the highest chances of being allocated a visit to the same client they have visited before. An intuitive explanation of this is that while providing the required care coverage, maximising overlap in visit allocation reduces the possibility of an infectious care worker inadvertently spreading the infection to other clients. The model is generic and can be adapted to any directly transmitted infectious disease, such as, more recently, corona virus disease 2019, provided accurate estimates of disease parameters can be obtained from real data.
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- 2021
7. Electronic Health Record Use in Swiss Nursing Homes and Its Association With Implicit Rationing of Nursing Care Documentation: Multicenter Cross-sectional Survey Study
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Michael Simon, Dietmar Ausserhofer, Lauriane Favez, and Franziska Zúñiga
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unfinished care ,patient care planning ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics ,Staffing ,R858-859.7 ,Health Informatics ,nursing homes ,documentation ,Health care rationing ,03 medical and health sciences ,Nursing care ,0302 clinical medicine ,Documentation ,Health Information Management ,Nursing ,030212 general & internal medicine ,health care economics and organizations ,media_common ,Teamwork ,Original Paper ,mobile phone ,business.industry ,health care rationing ,030503 health policy & services ,Rationing ,Information technology ,rationing of nursing care ,electronic health records ,Care work ,0305 other medical science ,business ,Psychology ,nursing care - Abstract
Background Nursing homes (NHs) are increasingly implementing electronic health records (EHRs); however, little information is available on EHR use in NH settings. It remains unclear how care workers perceive its safety, quality, and efficiency, and whether EHR use might ease the burden of documentation, thereby reducing its implicit rationing. Objective This study aims to describe nurses’ perceptions regarding the usefulness of the EHR system and whether sufficient numbers of computers are available in Swiss NHs, and to explore the system’s association with implicit rationing of nursing care documentation. Methods This was a multicenter cross-sectional study using survey data from the Swiss Nursing Homes Human Resources Project 2018. It includes a convenience sample of 107 NHs, 302 care units, and 1975 care workers (ie, registered nurses and licensed practical nurses) from Switzerland’s German- and French-speaking regions. Care workers completed questionnaires assessing the level of implicit rationing of nursing care documentation, their perceptions of the EHR system’s usefulness and of how sufficient the number of available computers was, staffing and resource adequacy, leadership ability, and teamwork and safety climate. For analysis, we applied generalized linear mixed models, including individual-level nurse survey data and data on unit and facility characteristics. Results Overall, the care workers perceived the EHR systems as useful; ratings ranged from 69.42% (1362/1962; guarantees safe care and treatment) to 78.32% (1535/1960; allows quick access to relevant information on the residents). However, less than half (914/1961, 46.61%) of the care workers reported sufficient computers on their unit to allow timely documentation. Half of the care workers responded that they sometimes or often had to ration the documentation of care. After adjusting for work environment factors and safety and teamwork climate, both higher care worker ratings of the EHR system’s usefulness (β=−.12; 95% CI −0.17 to −0.06) and sufficient numbers of computers (β=−.09; 95% CI −0.12 to −0.06) were consistently associated with lower implicit rationing of nursing care documentation. Conclusions Both the usefulness of the EHR system and the number of computers available were important explanatory factors for care workers leaving care activities (eg, developing or updating nursing care plans) unfinished. NH managers should carefully select and implement their information technology infrastructure with greater involvement and attention to the needs of their care workers and residents. Further research is needed to develop and implement user-friendly information technology infrastructure in NHs and to evaluate their impact on care processes as well as resident and care worker outcomes.
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- 2021
8. Understanding motivators and barriers of hospital-based obstetric and pediatric health care worker influenza vaccination programs in Australia
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Helen Marshall, Joanne Collins, Lexa Shrestha, and Jane Tuckerman
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Male ,0301 basic medicine ,Attitude of Health Personnel ,Influenza vaccine ,Health Personnel ,Decision Making ,Immunology ,Interviews as Topic ,Tertiary Care Centers ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Nursing ,Influenza, Human ,South Australia ,Health care ,Disease Transmission, Infectious ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Ease of Access ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Peer pressure ,Pharmacology ,Cross Infection ,business.industry ,Vaccination ,virus diseases ,Hospital based ,Hospitals, Pediatric ,Research Papers ,030112 virology ,Female ,Care work ,Thematic analysis ,business - Abstract
Understanding motivators and barriers of health care worker (HCW) vaccination programs is important for determining strategies to improve uptake. The aim of this study was to explore key drivers and HCW decision making related to recommended vaccines and seasonal influenza vaccination programs. We used a qualitative approach with semi-structured one-to-one interviews with 22 HCWs working at a tertiary pediatric and obstetric hospital in South Australia. A thematic analysis and coding were used to examine data. Key motivators that emerged included: sense of responsibility, convenience and ease of access, rotating trolleys, the influenza vaccine being free, basic knowledge about influenza and influenza vaccination, peer pressure, personal values and family culture, as well as the culture of support for the program. Personal decisions were the major barrier to HCWs receiving the influenza vaccine which were predominantly self-protection related or due to previous experience or fear of adverse reactions. Other barriers that emerged were misconceptions about the influenza vaccine, needle phobia and privacy concerns. This study identified both attitudinal and structural barriers that could be addressed to improve uptake of the seasonal influenza vaccine.
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- 2016
9. Obstáculos à produtividade científica de professoras universitárias da área de Ciências da Saúde
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Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent, Esperanza Gómez-Guardeño, Adolfo Alonso-Arroyo, and María Eugenia González-Sanjuán
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Embryology ,Library science ,Personal life ,Artigos Científicos ,Health Sciences ,Scientific Papers ,Scientific Productivity ,Academic Teachers ,Gender Studies ,Dificuldades e Obstáculos ,Publication ,Productivity ,Ciências da Saúde ,Medical education ,Produtividade Científica ,business.industry ,Estudos de Gênero ,Difficulties and Obstacles ,University teachers ,Cell Biology ,lcsh:Z ,lcsh:Bibliography. Library science. Information resources ,Work (electrical) ,Order (business) ,Professoras Universitárias ,Care work ,Anatomy ,business ,Psychology ,Developmental Biology ,Biomedical sciences - Abstract
To discover the features associated with personal and professional lives of university teachers, in the area of health sciences in the “Comunidad Valenciana” for the period 2003-2007, to learn if they contribute to a greater or lesser scientific productivity. Were interviewed in depth 30 teachers aged between 30 and 60 years in order to identify factors that hamper productivity. Have more difficulties to publish scientific papers, teachers less productive. Represent obstacles: the labor problems, the difficulty to obtain science projects and to publish in certain journals, to balance teaching and research, care work in hospitals, the maternity and children. Although the two groups of large and small producers point to the same problems in their work and personal life, are perceived more difficulties in the group of less productive. Most offer the same kind of solutions to reduce the gender distance. Descobrir as características associadas à vida pessoal e profissional de professoras universitárias, da área de Ciências da Saúde na Comunidade Valenciana, durante o quinquênio 2003-2007, que contribuem para uma maior ou menor produtividade científica foi o objetivo deste trabalho. Foram entrevistadas em profundidade 30 (trinta) professoras de idades compreendidas entre os 30 e 60 anos, com o propósito de determinar os fatores que dificultam a produtividade. As professoras menos produtivas encontram maiores dificuldades para publicar artigos científicos. Representam obstáculos: os problemas de trabalho, a dificuldade para obter projetos científicos e publicar em certas revistas, para conciliar docência e pesquisa, o trabalho assistencial em um hospital, a maternidade e os filhos. Embora os dois grupos de grandes e pequenas produtoras apontem os mesmos problemas em sua vida laboral e pessoal, são percebidas maiores dificuldades no grupo das menos produtivas. A maioria propõe o mesmo tipo de solução para diminuir a distância de gênero.
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- 2013
10. Ageing and Family Solidarity in Europe : Patterns and Driving Factors of Intergenerational Support
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Albertini, Marco
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CHILDCARE ,CHILDHOOD ,CHILDREN ,IMMIGRANTS ,FAMILIES ,NUCLEAR FAMILY ,ELDERLY MEN ,AGING ,CHILD ,DEMOGRAPHY ,BENEFIT ,YOUNG ADULTS ,SOCIETIES ,POPULATION ,MIGRANTS ,UNEMPLOYMENT ,MOTHERS ,AGE DISTRIBUTION ,WOMEN ,WORKERS ,MEN ,FEMALE ,PENSION ,SIBLINGS ,CHILDLESSNESS ,RISK FACTORS ,ISOLATION ,HEALTH ,SOCIAL CLASSES ,INTERVENTION ,AGED ,OLD AGE ,PARTNERS ,ORGANIZATIONS ,PENSIONS ,AGEING ,POLICY DISCUSSIONS ,DAY CARE ,INHERITANCE ,ELDERLY PEOPLE ,AGE ,SOCIAL SCIENCES ,LOWER CLASS ,FERTILITY ,AGE GROUPS ,PARENTS IN LAW ,PROGRESS ,PARENTING ,OLDER PEOPLE ,ELDERLY ,SOCIAL STRATIFICATION ,MORTALITY ,DISABILITY ,YOUNG ADULT ,DEVELOPMENT POLICY ,SOCIAL ISOLATION ,RISKS ,INTERVIEW ,LIVING CONDITIONS ,INEQUALITY ,EQUALITY ,FAMILY MEMBERS ,AUTONOMY ,SOCIAL CLASS ,STRESS ,FAMILY STRUCTURE ,SOCIAL POLICY ,EMPOWERMENT ,DIVERSITY ,RESIDENTIAL CARE ,KINSHIP ,GERONTOLOGY ,WELFARE STATES ,SOCIAL WORK ,WIVES ,PARENTS ,RELATIONSHIPS ,PARENTHOOD ,OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH ,RESIDENCE ,LIFE EXPECTANCY ,MARRIAGE ,WILL ,CARE WORK ,SEXES ,GENDER DIFFERENCES ,POLICY ,FAMILY ,ETHNICITY ,HEALTH CARE ,GENERATIONS ,INEQUALITIES ,INSURANCE ,NURSING ,MIGRATION ,POWER ,GENDER EQUITY ,SPOUSES ,SOCIAL EXCLUSION ,POLICY RESEARCH ,PSYCHOLOGY ,QUALITY OF LIFE ,PEOPLE ,BENEFITS ,WELFARE STATE ,STRATEGY ,HOME ,POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER ,FAMILY SUPPORT ,DIVORCE ,HOMES ,MARITAL STATUS ,GENDER EQUALITY ,PARTNER ,RESPONSIBILITY ,SOCIOLOGY ,ADULTS ,NORMS ,ARGUMENTS ,FAMILY RELATIONS ,OBSERVATION ,GENDER ,GENDER ROLES ,SOCIAL NETWORKS ,EU ,SOCIAL SUPPORT ,FATHERS ,GERIATRICS ,CULTURAL DIFFERENCES ,INSURANCES ,LAW - Abstract
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, intergenerational relations remain a key aspect of the future development and sustainability of the European social model. In the present paper, patterns of intergenerational support and the main driving factors behind individuals' transfer behavior are explored. In particular, the data form the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe are utilized to shed light on the main factors behind the likelihood and intensity of social support, and financial help provided to and received from other family members by ageing and elderly Europeans. The analysis also takes into consideration patterns and factors correlated with grandparenting activities. Finally, special attention is devoted to the condition of those individuals who are sandwiched between care obligations toward their elderly parents and young adult children. It is shown that the likelihood of the exchange of support between family generations is highest in Scandinavian countries and lowest in Southern Europe. The intensity of support follows an opposite North-South gradient. In addition, relevant gender-related inequalities are documented. In general, time-demanding support obligations are more likely to fall on the shoulders of women in the early stage of their later life, while mainly benefitting elderly men.
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- 2016
11. Rubbing the room: Tactile epistemologies of teacher work.
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Restler, Victoria
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THEORY of knowledge ,TEACHERS ,URBAN schools ,PUBLIC schools ,ROOMS - Abstract
This article describes a site-specific research-creation project at a New York City public school. The project and the images that resulted--a series of life-size red wax rubbings on paper--work in relation to visual discourses and dynamics of contemporary school accountability. In the article, the author situates the images and image-making in the context of her broader multimodal qualitative study on teachers' invisible labor in urban schools. The author makes sense of this multimodal intervention through a series of three conceptual dyads: witnessing/evidence; positionality/art; and intimacy/"tactile epistemology," (Marks 2000). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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12. LAS PROTESTAS DEL POBRE ÑERO ILUSTRADO -O TEORÍA SOCIAL, PROTESTAS EN COLOMBIA Y ANTROPOLOGÍA-.
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MANUEL PRIETO-PERDOMO, VÍCTOR
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FEMINISM ,SOCIAL impact ,POLICE brutality ,AUTOETHNOGRAPHY ,ETHNOLOGY ,FEMINIST theory ,PATRIARCHY - Abstract
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- 2023
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13. Los cuidados en la agenda democrática: una mirada desde la Ley de Contrato de Trabajo.
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Fabbioneri, Federico and Delfino, Andrea
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Copyright of Temas y Debates is the property of Temas y Debates and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
14. Can standing back extension exercise improve or prevent low back pain in Japanese care workers?
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Ken Hiroe, Tatsuya Isomura, Masatomo Kikkawa, Mari Suzuki, Ko Matsudaira, Miho Hiroe, Hiroyuki Oka, Kou Hiroe, and Takayuki Sawada
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Medical consultation ,business.industry ,Alternative medicine ,Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation ,Intervention group ,Low back pain ,Subjective improvement ,Physical medicine and rehabilitation ,Care workers ,medicine ,Physical therapy ,McKenzie method ,Care work ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Original Research Papers - Abstract
We suggested a standing back extension exercise 'One Stretch' based on the McKenzie method, to examine the ability to improve or prevent low back pain (LBP) in Japanese care workers.We conducted a single-center, non-randomized, controlled study in Japan. Care workers in an intervention group received an exercise manual and a 30-minute seminar on LBP and were encouraged with a group approach, while care workers in a control group were given only the manual. All care workers answered questionnaires at the baseline and end of a 1-year study period. The subjective improvement of LBP and compliance with the exercise were evaluated.In all, 64 workers in the intervention group and 72 in the control group participated in this study. More care workers in the intervention group exercised regularly and improved or prevented LBP than in the control group (P = 0·003 and P0·0001, respectively). In the intervention group, none had a first medical consultation or were absent from disability for LBP by the end of the study period.The exercise 'One Stretch' would be effective to improve or prevent LBP in care workers. Our group approach would lead to better compliance with the exercise.
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- 2016
15. The facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting: an interview study with healthcare workers
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Shirley Thomas, Amanda Griffiths, Miriam Stanyon, and Adam L. Gordon
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Research literature ,care workers ,Aging ,Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ,Attitude of Health Personnel ,Health Personnel ,thematic analysis ,Care setting ,Interviews as Topic ,older people ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Nursing ,Qualitative Paper ,Health care ,Medicine ,Dementia ,Homes for the Aged ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,care homes ,Workplace ,Patient Care Team ,030504 nursing ,business.industry ,communication ,General Medicine ,Professional-Patient Relations ,medicine.disease ,Nursing Homes ,Work (electrical) ,Geriatrics ,Workforce ,Interview study ,Care work ,Clinical Competence ,Health Services Research ,Geriatrics and Gerontology ,Thematic analysis ,0305 other medical science ,business - Abstract
Objectives: to describe the views of healthcare workers on the facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting. Design: thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews. Setting: all participants were interviewed in their place of work. Participants: sixteen healthcare workers whose daily work involves interacting with people with dementia. Results: four overarching categories of themes were identified from the interviews that impact on communication: the attributes of a care worker, communication strategies used, organisational factors and the physical characteristics of the care environment. Conclusion: many strategies used by healthcare workers to facilitate communication have not yet been studied in the research literature. Participants’ views on training should be incorporated into future dementia training programmes.
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- 2016
16. Navigating in the Landscape of Care: A Critical Reflection on Theory and Practise of Care and Ethics
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Eva Skaerbaek
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Health (social science) ,Identity (social science) ,Care ,Health informatics ,Existentialism ,Health(social science) ,Power (social and political) ,Identity ,medicine ,Humans ,Women ,Sociology ,Ethics ,Original Paper ,Just society ,business.industry ,Health Policy ,Public health ,Gender Identity ,Gender ,Environmental ethics ,Gender studies ,Europe ,Issues, ethics and legal aspects ,Philosophy of medicine ,Power ,Female ,Care work ,business ,Delivery of Health Care - Abstract
The theory and practise of care is defined and enacted differently in different national as well as cultural contexts, illuminating how differently constructed the personal and societal structures in Europe are. A common trait is however that care work paid or non-paid, private or public is identified with women. To navigate in the landscape of care and ethics requires taking into account the constitutive relation between one’s identity, embodiment and position. The author suggests conceiving care as an existential condition of life demanded from all human beings. This will free care from the identification with women and pave a way towards a more gender equal and just society with less gender segregation in the labour market and at the arena of education.
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- 2010
17. On the relational dynamics of caring: a psychotherapeutic approach to emotional and power dimensions of women's care work
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Liz Bondi
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Cultural Studies ,Geography ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Humanistic psychology ,Interpretation (philosophy) ,Gender ,Institute of Geography Online Papers Series (2005-2008) ,Epistemology ,Psychotherapy ,Gender Studies ,Power (social and political) ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Feeling ,Power dynamics ,Dynamics (music) ,Care work ,Psychoanalytic theory ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,Demography ,media_common - Abstract
Care is double-edged and paradoxical, inspiring a vast range of strong feelings in both care-givers and care-recipients. This article draws on ideas about psychotherapeutic relationships to offer a theorisation of the complex emotional and power dynamics and imaginative geographies of care. Examining the humanistic approach developed by Carl Rogers as well as the psychoanalytic tradition, I advance an interpretation of psychotherapeutic practices that foregrounds the fundamental importance of the emotional and power-inflected relationship between practitioners and those with whom they work. I show how different traditions offer conceptualisations of the shape of therapeutic relationships that are highly relevant to consideration of the emotional and power dynamics of giving and receiving care. Against this background I discuss current debates about care, emotions and power, drawing especially on feminist and disability perspectives and arguing that psychotherapeutic approaches offer a powerful lens through which to understand the emotional and power dynamics of caring relationships. I conclude by emphasising how this theorisation helps to illuminate ubiquitous features of women's care work.
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- 2008
18. The Distribution of Unpaid Domestic Work in Hungarian Stay-at-Home Father—Working-Mother Families.
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Drjenovszky, Zsófia and Sztáray Kézdy, Éva
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FATHERS ,STAY-at-home fathers ,WORKING mothers ,FATHER-child relationship ,HOUSEKEEPING ,UNPAID labor ,PARENT attitudes ,DIVISION of labor - Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Hungarian stay-at-home father—working-mother families from a point of view of how the distribution of unpaid domestic work develops during the period when the father stays at home with his child(ren). It answers the question of what principles and implemented practices govern the division of household labour in these families. According to the perception of the traditional parental role, unpaid domestic work, such as family duties, routine housework, and care work are the responsibility of mothers, while fathers are responsible for the financial stability of the family. In addition to the once prevailing breadwinner father role, nowadays the egalitarian model is becoming increasingly prominent. In parallel, a new father type appears according to which a good father wants to be more involved in the everyday life of the child. An extreme case of this type of involvement is when the father stays at home with his child(ren) and becomes the primary caregiver, and the mother assumes the role of breadwinner. The ratio of such families is growing around the world, but we still know relatively little about them. Our gap-filling, qualitative research is based on semi-structured in-depth interviews with 31 Hungarian stay-at-home fathers supplemented by a short questionnaire with their partners. The data were analyzed by thematic analysis method. As a main conclusion we could identify two clearly distinguishable groups among the examined couples: families with a rather traditional approach, and families having more egalitarian values concerning gender roles. However, the findings suggest that all of these families can be characterised by egalitarian sharing practices of duties, and at the same time by undoing gender. The distribution of routine housework and care work is based on a time availability perspective, which does not specify any masculine or feminine family duty or work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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19. Transforming Bodywork in Eldercare with Wash-and-dry Toilets.
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Hansen, Agnete Meldgaard and Grosen, Sidsel Lond
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ELDER care ,ASSISTIVE technology ,OLDER caregivers - Abstract
This paper addresses how the introduction of welfare technologies in Denmark makes the bodywork of eldercare an object of public governance, and investigates how wash-and-dry toilets co-constitute professional care work. First, a theoretical frame is established for studying care, with an emphasis on bodywork as a sociomaterial and collective accomplishment. The paper then unfolds the great expectations tied to welfare technologies in general, and wash-and-dry toilets specifically. Turning to differentiated examples of situated uses of the toilets, the complexity of making the toilets work within the context of professional eldercare is illustrated. Some of the uses of the toilets in care work are in concordance with policy expectations. Other uses demonstrate difficulties in satisfying the great expectations and call for a more complex understanding of what it takes to achieve dignified, technologically assisted care without silencing the skills and professionalism of care workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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20. "Not everyone can do this": childcare context and the practice of skill in emotional labor.
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Malhotra, Ragini Saira
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EMOTIONAL labor ,PROFESSIONALIZATION ,CHILD care ,EARLY childhood education ,WHITE women ,WOMEN employees ,EMOTIONS - Abstract
Scholarship remains divided about whether emotional labor is 'skilled'. Interrogating gendered skill constructs that render emotions in work invisible, I examine two organizational contexts in the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector: family and center-based care. I draw from 43 interviews, primarily with Latina and White women workers, reflecting feminized and racialized workplaces. I also draw from ethnographic and observational data. Challenging the particular devaluation of family-based care, findings reveal that the practice of skill in emotional labor is organizationally shaped across less and more institutionalized forms of ECEC. Examining worker critiques of professionalization norms and credential-based skill metrics, autonomy is also identified as a pre-requisite for embodied, tacit and discretionary skills in the emotional labor of ECEC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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21. Introduire l’éthique du care dans l’enquête de terrain
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Coline Reille
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ethics of care ,EoC ,care work ,animal studies ,pets ,field research ,Communication. Mass media ,P87-96 - Abstract
This paper tackles the question of how to integrate the ethics of care EoC into field research. It presents a method that is both reflexive and practical, drawing on insights from my own fieldwork. It demonstrates how EoC practices can be woven into research methodology, from choosing the presentation format to drawing up portraits of research participants. It emphasizes how incorporating EoC into field research provides a better understanding of certain research subjects, such as care work in animal professions, where certain characteristics have been defined. The paper shows that thinking about EoC as a research approach is not only achievable but also desirable. It illustrates a research approach that uses care as a research subject, epistemology, and research stance in the search for coherence between moral values, ethics, and scientific actions
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- 2023
22. LAS PUGNAS DE LAS MADRES COMUNITARIAS POR NOMBRAR EL TRABAJO DE CUIDADOS.
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De León, Adriana
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WOMEN'S rights ,CHILD care services ,CAREGIVERS ,GENDER ,MOTHER-child relationship ,CONSTITUTIONAL courts ,SERVICE centers - Abstract
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- 2021
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23. A qualitative study of what care workers do to provide patient safety at home through telecare.
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Stokke, Randi, Melby, Line, Isaksen, Jørn, Obstfelder, Aud, and Andreassen, Hege
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PATIENT safety ,HOME care services ,HOME safety ,INDUSTRIAL safety ,QUALITATIVE research - Abstract
Background: In health care, the work of keeping the patient safe and reducing the risk of harm is defined as safety work. In our digitised and technology-rich era, safety work usually involves a relationship between people and technologies. Telecare is one of the fastest-growing technology-domains in western health care systems. In the marketing of telecare, the expectation is that safety is implicit simply by the presence of technology in patients' homes. Whilst both researchers and health authorities are concerned with developing cost-benefit analyses and measuring effects, there is a lack of attention to the daily work needed to ensure that technologies contribute to patient safety. This paper aims to describe how patient safety in home care is addressed through and with telecare. We base our exploration on the social alarm, an established technology that care workers are expected to handle as an integrated part of their ordinary work.Methods: The study has a qualitative explorative design where we draw on empirical data from three case studies, involving five Norwegian municipalities that use social alarm systems in home care services. We analyse observations of practice and interviews with the actors involved, following King's outline of template analysis.Results: We identified three co-existing work processes that contributed to patient safety: "Aligning people and technologies"; "Being alert and staying calm"; and "Coordinating activities based on people and technology". Attention to these work processes exposes safety practices, and how safety is constructed in relational practices involving multiple people and technologies.Conclusions: We conclude that the three work processes identified are essential if the safety alarm is to function for the end user's safety. The safety of home-dwelling patients is reliant on the person-technology interface. The efforts of care workers and their interface with technology are a central feature of creating safety in a patient's home, and in doing so, they utilise a repertoire of skills and knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2021
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24. TO CARE FOR OR TO CARE ABOUT? JUSTICE AND INJUSTICES IN COMMODIFIED CARE WORK.
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BRITO, LAURA
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INCOME inequality , *NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations , *ELDER care , *SOCIAL cohesion , *SOCIAL institutions , *PROCEDURAL justice , *EXPERIENCE , *CAREGIVERS - Abstract
In Portugal, cooperation between the state and non-governmental organisations has led to the creation of institutions that provide care services, called IPSS [Private Institutions of Social Solidarity]. This paper presents the results of an ethnography carried out in a rural IPSS that provides care for the elderly. The fieldwork aimed to understand how claims for justice are negotiated between care workers, care users and employers. The objective of this paper is to contribute to the debate on redistributive justice by showing how inequality of income affects access to care as well as examining the idea of justice as a lived experience by demonstrating how claims for justice are depicted in day-by-day relationships of care. This paper is divided into two parts, the first being an introduction contextualising Portuguese care work. The second part focuses on António's story and reflects upon the work of two caregivers and their claim for justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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25. Caregivers Need Care, Too: Conceptualising Spiritual Care for Migrant Caregivers-Transnational Mothers.
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Reyes-Espiritu, Ma. Adeinev M.
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CAREGIVERS ,MOTHERS ,MIGRANT labor ,HOUSEHOLD employees ,PRESENCE of God ,IMMIGRANTS ,GROUNDED theory - Abstract
Growing research revolving around the plight of (Philippine) migrant domestic workers is noteworthy. However, the focus is largely on their role, capacity and identity as caregivers, meaning as labour migrants and transnational mothers engaged in both paid and unpaid care work. Building on the "care circulation" framework of Baldassar and Merla that conceptualises care as given and received in varying degrees by all family members across time and distance, this paper takes up the task of recognising migrant domestic workers as care receivers. In a particular way, this paper conceptualises care for migrant caregivers-transnational mothers that is based on a qualitative empirical study on the lived realities of Philippine migrant workers, who are also transnational mothers. An analysis of the participants' narratives using the constructivist grounded theory approach reveals that their experience of God's presence is central to how they navigate transnational mothering as labour migrants. This paper then proposes that their faith stories, significant as they are, be taken as a resource in providing them with spiritual care that takes their concerns into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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26. Towards an Anthropology of Care: Breastfeeding as a Care Work.
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Srebro, Andja Srdic
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL research ,BREASTFEEDING - Abstract
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- 2017
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27. Risk and Uncertainty in Telecare: The Case of the Finnish 'Elsi'.
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Jaakola, Joni
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ETHNOLOGY research , *REASONABLE care (Law) , *POPULATION aging , *VALUES (Ethics) , *AUSTERITY - Abstract
In recent decades, technologically mediated 'telecare' solutions have become popular for making the care of ageing populations more efficient, productive and targeted in times of economic austerity and care deficits. While telecare has been implemented in care work, caring has increasingly become a practice of managing risks. This paper draws on ethnographic research on the telecare solution 'Elsi' in a Finnish care home setting and examines telecare as a form of risk management. The 'Elsi' telecare system is based on information gathered from floor sensors and alarms caused by different events, such as falls. The argument is that telecare practices deal in many ways with 'uncertainty work' that produces uncertain knowledge, uncertain entities and uncertain values. Furthermore, these uncertainties produce additional work, which creates more duties for the care worker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
28. The Social Context of Caregiving Work in Health Care: Pushing Conceptual and Methodological Frontiers.
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Vogus, Timothy J., Gabriel, Allison S., and McClelland, Laura E.
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SOCIAL context ,MEDICAL care ,EMOTIONAL experience ,GEOGRAPHIC boundaries ,SOCIAL support - Abstract
As the demands and nature of caregiving work in the health-care sector become more varied and challenging, our research and theories need to match this evolving reality. This editorial introduces theories of caregiving work and then uses each of the four papers featured in the special issue to advance a more nuanced and social approach to theorizing and studying the emotional experience of caregiving work. The articles and editorial explore the implications of whole person organizational and social supports, (un)shared social location between caregivers and patients, the complexity and consequences of emotional experience, and novel measurement and analytic tools to study them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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29. When Your Country Cannot Care for Itself: A Filipino Feminist Critique of Care-based Political Theories.
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Dela Cruz, Noelle Leslie G.
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POLITICAL philosophy ,FEMINISTS ,FILIPINOS ,FEMINIST criticism - Abstract
In this paper, I evaluate a number of care-based political theories, whose central project is to identify, frame, and address the socalled crisis of care. Three proposals emerge, which I characterize as the philosophical, economic, and political solutions. In light of recent transnational analyses, however, these solutions appear to be inadequate in addressing the global nature of the problem. Thus, there is a need to revise the political philosophy of care. To this end, I identify a set of preliminary questions to ask based on a careful consideration of the Philippine situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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30. Beyond Human to Humane: A Multispecies Analysis of Care Work, Its Repression, and Its Potential.
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COULTER, KENDRA
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HUMAN-animal relationships ,ANIMAL psychology ,SOCIAL justice ,MIND & body ,FAMILIES - Abstract
This paper approaches care work through a multispecies and interspecies lens, and challenges readers to expand both their analysis and their ethical considerations in order to include animals. First I present a conceptual framework to help illuminate and unpack the care work animals do in the wild, in homes, and in formal workplaces. I then highlight the complex ways animals' bodies, minds, and families are involved in the production of commodities for human consumption, and the implications of such practices for animals' own forms of caregiving. Unfortunately, the fact is that for many animals, their primary experiences of care work are its repression. As a result, in the final section, I offer food for thought about the potential for care work to not only involve more empathetic embodied interactions and labour processes, but to be a springboard for expanded visions and projects of social justice which include humane jobs and recognize that "the social" is multispecies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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31. Placing Care Work in the Future of Work Discourse
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Tyler Blackman, Terah S. Sportel, and Margaret Walton-Roberts
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care work ,future of work ,labour ,migration ,sustainable livelihoods ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
In this paper, we argue that the importance of care work and migration is undervalued and undertheorized in current understandings of the future of work. Discussions of the future of work are predominantly technocentric. Focus tends toward speculative predictions and the implications of supposedly inevitable technological advances that will lead to evolving adaptation skills and job loss. This prevailing discourse prioritises economic development and productivity, which is reinforced by institutional support at the global scale, influencing policy and practice. Although the demand for care work continues to grow globally, its meaningful inclusion in the future of work discourse is limited, and arguably effaced. We emphasise that the definition of care work is expansive, is difficult to quantify, and it cannot be easily automated. Similarly, high-income countries increasingly rely on migration flows to meet their care work needs, and in turn middle- and low-income countries rely on remittances to sustain their development and people’s livelihoods. In this paper, we offer a conceptual corrective to better situate the dense context of care work. In doing so, we draw on valuable perspectives on diverse economies, decent work and sustainable livelihoods, global care chains, and glocalisation. Incorporating well established insights from within these foci will lead to more effective discussion and a policy agenda for the future of work that takes socially just care work into consideration.
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- 2022
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32. Constituting Immigrant Care Workers through Gendering and Racialising Practices in Education.
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Kurki, Tuuli, Brunila, Kristiina, and Lahelma, Elina
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FOREIGN workers ,IMMIGRANT students ,MEDICAL care ,SECONDARY schools - Abstract
The focus of this paper is to examine how immigrants become constituted as ideal care workers in educational settings. By analysing the everyday practices in two educational contexts in the Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland, the authors explore how these practices that are influenced by the national and transnational immigration and integration policy, regardless of their well-meant actions, can gender and racialise students with immigrant status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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33. Care Descriptions at Work: Textual Technologies from the Standpoint of Care Workers.
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Lundberg, Kjetil G.
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ELDER care ,EMPLOYEE rules ,WELFARE state - Abstract
Forms and documents play significant roles in the context of care work for older people. One type of form that care workers use on a daily basis is individual care descriptions (ICDs). An ICD is a text that is written on a piece of paper or on a computer, and specifies the care tasks to be carried out. How do ICDs operate in local settings of care work for older people? Anchored in insights from institutional ethnography, I investigate care work practices from the standpoint of care workers in care settings in Norway. In the empirical analysis, I identify and pay attention to two particular ICDs and how they enter the everyday care work practices. The findings indicate that ICDs contribute to standardizing care work practices that are related to changes in the cultural and institutional foundations of the welfare state. Furthermore, ICDs coordinate practices in different ways, and promote several forms of coordination. Hence, when analysing care descriptions at work, awareness of contextual sensitivity is called for. This paper contributes to research on management and power relationships in home care and nursing care work by illustrating different dimensions of textually based coordination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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34. DEMANDAS EMOCIONAIS E CONSTRUÇÃO DA IDENTIDADE NO TRABALHO DE CUIDADO.
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Galeano, Patricia S.
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- 2019
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35. Plataformas digitales del trabajo de cuidado doméstico remunerado en Colombia: el caso de Hogarú.
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Posso Quiceno, Jeanny Lucero, Castiblanco Moreno, Suelen Emilia, and Pineda Duque, Javier Armando
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CONSCIOUSNESS raising ,DIGITAL technology ,INDUSTRIAL relations ,HOUSEKEEPING ,HOUSEHOLD employees ,BARGAINING power - Abstract
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- 2024
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36. El sostenimiento de la vida: Trayectorias de trabajo remunerado y no remunerado de mujeres en México.
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Ferraris, Sabrina A. and Salgado, Mario Martínez
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UNPAID labor ,DEMOGRAPHIC surveys ,WOMEN household employees ,SOCIAL background ,SEQUENCE analysis ,MULTIDIMENSIONAL databases ,SOCIALIZATION - Abstract
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- 2022
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37. To Care for or to Care about? Justice and Injustices in Commodified Care Work
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Laura Brito
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care work ,elderly care ,redistributive justice ,welfare society ,General Works ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
In Portugal, cooperation between the state and non-governmental organisations has led to the creation of institutions that provide care services, called IPSS [Private Institutions of Social Solidarity]. This paper presents the results of an ethnography carried out in a rural IPSS that provides care for the elderly. The fieldwork aimed to understand how claims for justice are negotiated between care workers, care users and employers. The objective of this paper is to contribute to the debate on redistributive justice by showing how inequality of income affects access to care as well as examining the idea of justice as a lived experience by demonstrating how claims for justice are depicted in day-by-day relationships of care. This paper is divided into two parts, the first being an introduction contextualising Portuguese care work. The second part focuses on António’s story and reflects upon the work of two caregivers and their claim for justice.
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- 2021
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38. Diferencias entre profesoras y profesores de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México en el trabajo docente y de cuidados durante la pandemia.
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Benavides Lara, Mario Alberto, de Agüero Servín, Mercedes, and Martínez Álvarez, Silvia Iveth
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GENDER differences (Sociology) , *WOMEN teachers , *SEXUAL division of labor , *HOUSEKEEPING , *DISTANCE education - Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the differences between female and male teachers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to conciliate their academic and caredomestic work in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodologically, the data were obtained from a closed response questionnaire applied in the last two weeks of June 2020 on an effective sample of 395 female and male teachers from upper and upper secondary level. The results of the analysis show that women dedicate more time to domestic and care work, as well as to activities that are part of academic work compared to male teachers. The main conclusion is that the gender order and sexual distribution of work is a phenomenon reproduced in the field of university teaching and continues to be present in the organization of teaching tasks in the context of emergency remote education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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39. Frontline workers in education, health and welfare: how much do they earn in European countries? A comparative income analysis based on the EU-LFS
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Lehwess-Litzmann, René and Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut an der Universität Göttingen e.V. (SOFI)
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care work ,inequality ,Employment Research ,Economics ,Ungleichheit ,Arbeitsmarktentwicklung ,labor market trend ,level of education ,gender-specific factors ,ddc:330 ,qualification ,Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung ,labor market policy ,Wirtschaft ,Arbeitsmarktpolitik ,Europe ,Dienstleistungsarbeit ,income ,geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren ,service work ,Care-Arbeit ,Erwerbseinkommen ,EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS), 2012-2020 ,EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) ,EU Structure of Earnings Survey (EU- SES) ,Einkommen ,Bildungsniveau ,EU ,Qualifikation - Abstract
The present paper analyses frontline workers’ incomes in the fields of education, health, and welfare (“EHW”). In the face of an upsurge in demand for such services, the question is how EHW occupations can attract enough qualified workers, now and in the future. In public perception, EHW work is poorly paid, while empirically, wage heterogeneity between occupations is quite large. A comprehensive comparison of EHW occupations’ wages across Europe is still lacking. The present contribution seeks to fill this gap by comparing incomes for 24 European countries, based on data from the European Union’s labour force survey (EU-LFS) between 2016 and 2020. Our descriptive analysis yields that EHW workers earn slightly above-average incomes in the majority of countries. This result can be explained by the high share of EHW workers with a tertiary education level. By contrast, for EHW workers with only secondary education, we find that they earn less in EHW than in other labour-market segments. Both outside and inside the EHW, we observe higher incomes for men than for women. Between EHW occupations, there is an income hierarchy led by medical doctors and tertiary education teachers. At the lower end, there are personal care workers with lower formal education who earn below-average incomes in all observed countries. Yet the degree to which they are penalised differs widely. From a dynamic perspective, our findings hint at a slightly deteriorating relative income position of EHW workers in the 2010s, apparently caused less by declining wages than by structural change in the wider labour market. In diesem Working Paper werden Einkommen von Beschäftigten in den Bereichen Bildung, Gesundheit und Soziales („EHW“) analysiert. Angesichts der steigenden Nachfrage nach solchen Dienstleistungen stellt sich die Frage, wie EHW-Berufe jetzt und in Zukunft genügend qualifizierte Arbeitskräfte anziehen können. In der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung ist Arbeit in diesen Bereichen schlecht bezahlt, während empirisch eher Lohnheterogenität beobachtbar ist. Ein umfassender Vergleich der Löhne von EHW-Berufen in ganz Europa steht noch aus. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht auf Basis der Arbeitskräfteerhebung der Europäischen Union (EU-AKE) Einkommen in 24 europäischen Ländern in den Jahren 2016 bis 2020. Es zeigt sich, dass EHW-Beschäftigte in der Mehrzahl dieser Länder leicht überdurchschnittliche Einkommen erzielen. Dies lässt sich durch den hohen Anteil von EHW-Beschäftigten mit einem tertiären Bildungsniveau erklären. Im Gegensatz dazu stellen wir fest, dass EHW-Beschäftigte, die nur über einen Sekundarschulabschluss verfügen, in den Bereichen Bildung, Gesundheit und Soziales weniger verdienen als anderswo. Sowohl außerhalb als auch innerhalb dieser Bereiche beobachten wir höhere Einkommen für Männer als für Frauen. Zwischen EHW-Berufen gibt es eine Einkommenshierarchie, die von Ärzten und Hochschullehrern angeführt wird. Am unteren Ende befinden sich Pflegekräfte mit wenig formaler Qualifikation, die in allen beobachteten Ländern unterdurchschnittliche Einkommen erzielen. Das Ausmaß der Benachteiligung ist jedoch sehr unterschiedlich. Unsere Ergebnisse deuten ferner darauf hin, dass sich die relative Einkommensposition von EHW-Beschäftigten in den 2010er Jahren leicht verschlechtert hat, was offenbar weniger auf sinkende Löhne als auf strukturelle Veränderungen im Arbeitsmarkt insgesamt zurückzuführen ist.
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- 2022
40. Gendered Articulations of Control and Care on Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hungary
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Katinka Linnamäki
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COVID-19 ,gender ,Hungary ,care work ,control ,familialism ,Political science - Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine the Hungarian Fidesz-KDNP government´s discursive practices of control and care during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper researches the Hungarian government’s communication on the official Hungarian COVID-19 Facebook page during the first wave of the pandemic. Its aim is to answer the question how the Hungarian government articulated control and care to reinforce sedimented gendered division of care work and institutions of control to tackle the potential disruption of the system of care before the widespread vaccination of the elderly population was available in the country. The paper argues that the pandemic has allowed the government to exert control in areas, such as the crisis in the workforce market and health care system, as well as in the destabilized system of care work. The main finding is that in the material the government performs control over care work, whose intensified discussion during the pandemic could lead to a potential disruption within the illiberal logic on two different levels. First, physical care work related to immediate physical needs, like hunger, clothing, pain enacted by female shoppers, female health care workers and female social workers, is newly defined during the pandemic as local, family-bound and a naturally female task. Second, the government articulates care work, either as potentially harmful (for the elderly population and thus indirectly to the government’s familialist politics), or as vulnerable and in need of protection from outside influences (portrayed through the interaction of health care workers and “hospital commanders”). This enables the government to perform full state control over care workers through the mobilization of police and military masculinity and to strengthen and re-naturalize the already existing hierarchies between traditional gender roles from a new perspective during the pandemic. This state of affairs highlights the vulnerability both of the elderly population, on whom its familialism builds, and of the system of informal care work, which builds on the unpaid care work of female citizens, who paradoxically are also articulated as potential harm for the elderly and for the system.
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- 2021
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41. READ CAREFULLY! CONCEPTUALIZING READING AS CARE IN THE BOOK OF FORM & EMPTINESS AND MY SALINGER YEAR.
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HINDERS, SONKA
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READING - Abstract
Reading and care are two concepts which inspire extensive discussions in current research, especially because both of them are perceived to be in crisis and, as a result, reconsidered and re-conceptualized. Despite this fact and despite conceptual overlaps in areas such as attention, affect and attachment, reading and care have not been contextualized or studied in relationship to each other comprehensively. Delving deeper into intersections of reading and care, this article inquires which concepts of reading emerge when it is viewed through the lens of care. Studying the two contemporary American works My Salinger Year and The Book of Form & Emptiness, the _Article analyzes how reading can constitute acts of caring about, caring for, and self-care. This introduces new perspectives on reading as a practice embedded in broader socio-cultural issues it mirrors and participates in, highlighting functions ascribed to reading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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42. Street-Level Educators: The Selective Recognition of Students and Invisible TA Labor.
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Torres Carpio, Elizabeth
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Drawing on my experience as a teaching assistant (TA), I expand on Michael Lipsky's concept of the street-level bureaucrat by focusing on how an agency's construction of the client shapes the work of the bureaucrat. I call this selective recognition. The university classifies students into three types: the archetypal student for whom the university is designed, the partially recognized student who receives accommodations, and the unrecognized student with responsibilities that make learning difficult. The result is an adaptation of the TA's three dimensions of the labor process: teaching, administration, and care work. The labor contract stipulates the first and a modicum of the second but not the third. Changing student demographics have increased all dimensions of TA labor, especially administrative tasks and the amount of invisible care work performed. The extractive university relies on this invisible and often overextended labor to dampen and conceal the reality of its own failing mission. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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43. Las condiciones del trabajo doméstico remunerado en Argentina: la provisión de cuidados.
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Messina, Giuseppe M.
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- 2016
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44. From Time Sheets to Tablets: Documentation Technology in Frontline Service Sector Managers' Coordination of Home Healthcare Services.
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Wu, Tina
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SERVICE industries ,ELECTRONIC health records ,DOCUMENTATION - Abstract
Research on service work theorizes a triangle of power alliances between workers, managers, and customers, while studies on electronic health records (EHRs) focus on user experiences. Using an ethnography of a home healthcare company, this article explores how EHR affects the roles of frontline managers in the service triangle. Managers using traditional paperwork perform mediational authority. They interpret accounts from workers and clients to create an official record. Managers using app-based EHR software perform directive authority by telling staff how to document, but they lack the power to directly alter the record. Thus, documentation technologies have unintended implications for roles and relationships in service sector work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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45. Social and relational identification as determinants of care workers' motivation and well-being.
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Bjerregaard, Kirstien, Haslam, S. Alexander, Morton, Thomas, and Ryan, Michelle K.
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CARE of people ,CAREGIVERS ,MOTIVATION (Psychology) ,WELL-being ,INTERPERSONAL relations ,PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
A growing body of research in the field of health and social care indicates that the quality of the relationship between the person giving care and the person receiving it contributes significantly to the motivation and well-being of both. This paper examines how care workers' motivation is shaped by their social and relational identification at work. Survey findings at two time points (T1, N = 643; T2, N = 1274) show that care workers' motivation increases to the extent that incentives, the working context (of residential vs. domiciliary care), and the professionalization process (of acquiring vs. not acquiring a qualification) serve to build and maintain meaningful identities within the organization. In this context care workers attach greatest importance to their relational identity with clients and the more they perceive this as congruent with their organizational identity the more motivated they are. Implications are discussed with regard to the need to develop and sustain a professional and compassionate workforce that is able to meet the needs of an aging society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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46. Aging in Place: Smith, Media Texts and the Invisible Gendered Caregiver
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Storelli, Elizangela
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Geriatric Nursing ,care work ,gender ,aging in place ,Dorothy E. Smith ,text analysis - Abstract
This paper addresses a hidden variable underlying the recent phenomena of ―aging in place.‖ That variable is the degree to which aging in place relies on women‘s caregiving. Seeking to understand the connection between aging in place and gendered caregiving, and to explore the effects of aging in place on the social condition of women caregivers, this paper utilizes a feminist theoretical perspective presented by Dorothy E. Smith to examine popular texts on aging in place. Smith suggested that texts are means by which the male dominated relations of ruling exercise power over women by patterning the actual daily existence of women‘s lives (Smith 1990). Adopting this foundation, this paper considers texts on aging in place with the objective of learning how the texts pattern the aging in place process and how the process creates and reproduces power over women and maintains gender inequality. Popular texts on aging in place describe the process as one that both provides independence and can be independently achieved. By ignoring and devaluing the work of caregivers involved in the aging in place process, these texts ultimately work to reproduce women‘s financial disadvantages and limit women‘s participation in positions of power.
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47. Spanish residents' experiences of care during the first wave of the COVID-19 syndemic: a photoelicitation study.
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Medina-Perucha, Laura, Jacques-Aviñó, Constanza, López-Jiménez, Tomàs, Maiz, Catuxa, and Berenguera, Anna
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HEALTH self-care ,INFECTION control ,HEALTH attitudes ,QUALITATIVE research ,RESEARCH funding ,PHOTOGRAPHY ,CRISIS intervention (Mental health services) ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,STAY-at-home orders ,EXPERIENCE ,THEMATIC analysis ,RESEARCH ,COVID-19 pandemic ,COVID-19 - Abstract
Purpose: The main aim of this research was to explore experiences of care during the lockdown of the first wave of COVID-19 syndemic in Spain Methods: This is a qualitative and explorative study using self-photo-elicitation as a data collection method. Fifteen participants (Twelve women and three men) shared 25 photographs and one video between the June 18 and August, 2020. Participants' photographs and texts were collected online. Data were analysed based on Thematic Analysis. Results: Three emerging categories were constructed: 1) the deconstruction of care: self-care and collective care 2) the crisis of care and gendered care, 2) beyond anthropocentrism: animalism and ecology. Findings indicate the need to understand "care" in terms of social reproduction, including self-care, care towards other humans and non-human animals, and collective care. Also, the need to care for planetary health and to be in contact with nature as a form of self-care and social care. Conclusions: Care in a period of social and health crisis puts human relationships and also non-human life at the centre. Care requires adopting taking an ecological one-health perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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48. Las mujeres mexicanas frente al trabajo de cuidados: desigualdades en las actividades y en las formas de vida.
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Arce Casas, Pedro Octavio and Arvizu Reynaga, Vanessa
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SOCIAL status ,BURDEN of care ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,TWENTY-first century ,TIME management ,GENDER inequality - Abstract
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- 2023
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49. ¿Revirtiendo la violencia institucional hacia las mujeres migrantes en el servicio doméstico? El caso de la subvención para la creación de nueva ocupación en el ámbito del trabajo domiciliario de cuidados en Cataluña.
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Parella, Sònia, Piqueras, Clara, and Speroni, Thales
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GENDER ,VIOLENCE - Abstract
Copyright of Migraciones is the property of Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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50. What about the numbers? A quantitative contribution to the study of domestic services in Europe.
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ABRANTES, Manuel
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HOUSEHOLD employees ,LABOR supply ,LABOR laws ,PUBLIC service employment ,LABOR market ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
How many domestic workers are there in Europe? How have their numbers evolved? Do the patterns differ across countries? Examining European Union Labour Force Survey data for the EU15 over the period 2000-10, the author finds that the numbers of domestic workers grew in this period, particularly those caring for children and frail adults. His analysis confirms the coexistence of two contrasting models that broadly divide Europe between northern countries relying mainly on public services and southern countries relying on private solutions. Considering the explanatory capacity of public policy, labour market dynamics and gender relations, however, he argues for a more nuanced approach to understanding cross-country patterns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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