Valuing Care Work : : Comparative Perspectives / / Cecilia Benoit, Helga Hallgrimsdottir.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Benoit, Cecilia,; Hallgrimsdottir, Helga,
• MitwirkendeR: Benoit, Cecilia,; Bjornsdóttir, Kristin,; Bourgeault, Ivy,; Brown, Debra,; Brown, Leslie,; Callahan, Marilyn,; Casey, Lauren,; Ceci, Christine,; Dolan, Holly,; Einarsdóttir, Þorgerdur,; Eni, Rachel,; Funk, Laura,; Hallgrímsdóttir, Helga Kristín,; Hallgrímsdóttir, Helga,; Kobayashi, Karen,; Leischner, Chris,; Mackenzie, Patricia,; Martin-Matthews, Anne,; Mellow, Muriel,; Phillips, Rachel,; Purkis, Mary Ellen,; Sims-Gould, Joanie,; Teghtsoonian, Kathy,; Thien, Deborah,; Treloar, Rachel,; Whittington, Barbara,; Wrede, Sirpa,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 1 map

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Part One: Theoretical Considerations -- 1. Conceptualizing Care Work -- 2. Emplacing Care: Understanding Care Work across Social and Spatial Contexts -- Part Two: Paid Care Work in Formal Organizations -- 3. In Search of Equity and Dignity in Maternity Care: Canada in Comparative Perspective -- 4. Caring beyond Borders: Comparing the Relationship between Nursing Work and Migration Patterns in Canada and Finland -- Part Three: Paid Care Work in Intimate and Community Settings -- 5. Patching Up the Holes: Analysing Paid Care Work in Homes -- 6. My Home, Your Work, Our Relationship: Elderly Clients' Experiences of Home Care Services -- 7. Bifurcated Conscience: Aboriginal Care Workers in Community Settings -- Part Four: Unpaid Care Work in Intimate Settings -- 8. Mothers' Health, Responsibilization, and Choice in Unpaid Family Care Work after Separation/Divorce -- 9. 'Choice' in Unpaid Intimate Labour: Adult Children with Aging Parents -- 10. Spinning the Family Web: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren in Canada -- Part Five: Unpaid Care Work in Economic Organizations -- 11. Voluntary Caregiving? Constraints and Opportunities for Hospital Volunteers -- 12. Volunteering on the Front Line: Caring for Sex Workers in Non-profit Organizations -- Part Six: Public Policy Implications and New Directions for Research -- 13. Neoliberalism, Gender, and Care Work: Trends and Challenges