Home Care Fault Lines - Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances (Paperback)

In this revealing look at home care, Cynthia J. Cranford illustrates how elderly and disabled people and the immigrant women workers who assist them in daily activities develop meaningful relationships even when their different ages, abilities, races, nationalities, and socioeconomic backgrounds generate tension. As Cranford shows, workers can experience devaluation within racialized and gendered class hierarchies, which shapes their pursuit of security. Cranford analyzes the tensions, alliances, and compromises between security for workers and flexibility for elderly and disabled people, and she argues that workers and recipients negotiate flexibility and security within intersecting inequalities in varying ways depending on multiple interacting dynamics. What comes through from Cranford's analysis is the need for deeply democratic alliances across multiple axes of inequality. To support both flexible care and secure work, she argues for an intimate community unionism that advocates for universal state funding, designs culturally sensitive labor market intermediaries run by workers and recipients to help people find jobs or workers, and addresses everyday tensions in home workplaces.

General

Imprint:	ILR Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
Release date:	April 2020
First published:	2021
Authors:	Cynthia J Cranford
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-5017-4926-1
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law > Employment & labour law Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Nursing > Community nursing Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General Books > Academic & Education > Varsity Textbooks > Nursing Promotions
LSN:	1-5017-4926-9
Barcode:	9781501749261

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