Valuing Care Work : Comparative Perspectives /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Benoit, Cecilia M., 1954-, Hallgrimsdóttir, Helga, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Medical care.
Home care services.
Caregivers.
Care of the sick.
Cross-cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
MEDICAL > Caregiving.
Études transculturelles.
Coût de la maladie.
Soins medicaux.
Soins à domicile.
Aidants naturels.
Soins aux malades.
Patient Care
Caregivers
Employment > psychology
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Cost of Illness
Home Care Services > economics
Caregivers > psychology
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Conceptualizing care work / Cecilia Benoit, Hallgrímsdóttir
  • Emplacing care : understanding care work across social and spatial contexts / Deborah Thien, Holly Dolan
  • In search of equity and dignity in maternity care : Canada in comparative perspective / Cecilia Benoit, Sirpa Wrede, Þorgerdur Einarsdóttir
  • Caring beyond borders : comparing the relationship between work and migration patterns in Canada and Finland / Ivy Bourgeault, Sirpa Wrede
  • Patching up the holes : analyzing paid care work in homes / Mary Ellen Purkis, Christine Ceci, Kristin Bjornsdoþttir
  • My home, your work, our relationship : elderly clients' experiences of home care services / Anne Martin-Matthews, Joanie Sims-Gould
  • Bifurcated consciousness : Aboriginal care workers in community settings / Rachel Eni
  • Mothers' health, responsibilization, and choice in unpaid family care work after separation or divorce / Rachel Treloar, Laura Funk
  • "Choice" in informal health care work : adult children with aging parents / Laura Funk, Karen Kobayashi
  • Spinning the family web : grandparents raising grandchildren in Canada / Patricia Mackenzie [and others]
  • Voluntary caregiving : constraints and opportunities for hospital volunteers / Muriel Mellow
  • Volunteering on the frontline : caring for sex workers in non-profit organizations / Rachel Phillips, Lauren Casey, Chris Leischner
  • Neoliberalism, Gender, and Care Work: Trends and Challenges / Helga Hallgrímsdóttir [and others].

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