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A nurse inserts an I.V. A personal care attendant helps a
quadriplegic bathe and get dressed. A nanny reads a bedtime story
to soothe a child to sleep. Every day, workers like these provide
critical support to some of the most vulnerable members of our
society. "Caring on the Clock" provides a wealth of insight into
these workers, who take care of our most fundamental needs, often
at risk to their own economic and physical well-being. "Caring on
the Clock" is the first book to bring together cutting-edge
research on a wide range of paid care occupations, and to place the
various fields within a comprehensive and comparative framework
across occupational boundaries. The book includes twenty-two
original essays by leading researchers across a range of
disciplines--including sociology, psychology, social work, and
public health. They examine the history of the paid care sector in
America, reveal why paid-care work can be both personally
fulfilling but also make workers vulnerable to burnout, emotional
fatigue, physical injuries, and wage exploitation. Finally, the
editors outline many innovative ideas for reform, including
top-down and grassroots efforts to improve recognition,
remuneration, and mobility for care workers. As America faces a
series of challenges to providing care for its citizens, including
the many aging baby boomers, this volume offers a wealth of
information and insight for policymakers, scholars, advocates, and
the general public.
There are fundamental tasks common to every society: children have
to be raised, homes need to be cleaned, meals need to be prepared,
and people who are elderly, ill, or disabled need care. Day in, day
out, these responsibilities can involve both monotonous drudgery
and untold rewards for those performing them, whether they are
family members, friends, or paid workers. These are jobs that
cannot be outsourced, because they involve the most intimate spaces
of our everyday lives--our homes, our bodies, and our families.
Mignon Duffy uses a historical and comparative approach to examine
and critique the entire twentieth-century history of paid care
work--including health care, education and child care, and social
services--drawing on an in-depth analysis of U.S. Census data as
well as a range of occupational histories. Making Care Count
focuses on change and continuity in the social organization along
with cultural construction of the labor of care and its
relationship to gender, racial-ethnic, and class inequalities.
Debunking popular understandings of how we came to be in a ""care
crisis,"" this book stands apart as an historical quantitative
study in a literature crowded with contemporary, qualitative
studies, proposing well-developed policy approaches that grow out
of the theoretical and empirical arguments.
A nurse inserts an I.V. A personal care attendant helps a
quadriplegic bathe and get dressed. A nanny reads a bedtime story
to soothe a child to sleep. Every day, workers like these provide
critical support to some of the most vulnerable members of our
society. "Caring on the Clock" provides a wealth of insight into
these workers, who take care of our most fundamental needs, often
at risk to their own economic and physical well-being. "Caring on
the Clock" is the first book to bring together cutting-edge
research on a wide range of paid care occupations, and to place the
various fields within a comprehensive and comparative framework
across occupational boundaries. The book includes twenty-two
original essays by leading researchers across a range of
disciplines--including sociology, psychology, social work, and
public health. They examine the history of the paid care sector in
America, reveal why paid-care work can be both personally
fulfilling but also make workers vulnerable to burnout, emotional
fatigue, physical injuries, and wage exploitation. Finally, the
editors outline many innovative ideas for reform, including
top-down and grassroots efforts to improve recognition,
remuneration, and mobility for care workers. As America faces a
series of challenges to providing care for its citizens, including
the many aging baby boomers, this volume offers a wealth of
information and insight for policymakers, scholars, advocates, and
the general public.
There are fundamental tasks common to every society: children have
to be raised, homes need to be cleaned, meals need to be prepared,
and people who are elderly, ill, or disabled need care. Day in, day
out, these responsibilities can involve both monotonous drudgery
and untold rewards for those performing them, whether they are
family members, friends, or paid workers. These are jobs that
cannot be outsourced, because they involve the most intimate spaces
of our everyday lives--our homes, our bodies, and our families.
Mignon Duffy uses a historical and comparative approach to examine
and critique the entire twentieth-century history of paid care
work--including health care, education and child care, and social
services--drawing on an in-depth analysis of U.S. Census data as
well as a range of occupational histories. Making Care Count
focuses on change and continuity in the social organization along
with cultural construction of the labor of care and its
relationship to gender, racial-ethnic, and class inequalities.
Debunking popular understandings of how we came to be in a ""care
crisis,"" this book stands apart as an historical quantitative
study in a literature crowded with contemporary, qualitative
studies, proposing well-developed policy approaches that grow out
of the theoretical and empirical arguments.
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