Valuing care work comparative perspectives (University of Toronto Press, 2011)
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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 ... [et al.] -- 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 -- Public policy, caring practices, and gender in health care work / Helga Hallgrímsdóttir ... [et al.]
"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."--Pub. desc