Carers, Care Homes and the British Media: Time to Care (1st ed. 2020)

Synopsis

This book focuses on the relationship between the media and those who work as paid care assistants in care homes in Britain. It explores this relationship in terms of the contemporary cultural and personal understandings of care work and care homes that have developed as the role has emerged as increasingly socially and economically significant in society. Three strands of analysis are integrated: an examination of the representations of paid care workers in the British media; the experiences of current and former care workers; and the autoethnographic reflections of the authors who have experiences of working as care assistants. The book offers a rich contextual and experiential account of the responsibilities, challenges, and emotions of care work in British society. Grist and Jennings make a case for the need to better value and more accurately represent care work in contemporary media accounts.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783030357689

Related ISBNs:

9783030357672

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

06/01/20

Copyrighted By:

Springer

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Communication, Sociology

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This is a copyrighted book.