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Home care fault lines : understanding tensions and creating alliances /
"This book is an in-depth analysis of how workers and recipients of home care craft flexibility and security in relation to one another within constraints defined by intersecting social inequalities, state funding, labor market policies and managerial rules"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Culture and politics of health care work.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- A note on sources
- Introduction: Tensions between flexibility and security
- 1. Gender, migration and the pursuit of security
- 2. Disability and the quest for flexibility
- 3. Managing flexibility without security in Toronto's direct funding
- 4. Negotiating flexibility with security in Los Angeles's in-home supportive services
- 5. Agency-led flexibility and insecurity in Toronto's home care
- 6. Bargaining for security with flexibility in Toronto's attendant services
- 7. Toward flexible care and secure work in intimate labor
- Appendix: Interviews and methods
- Notes
- References
- Index.