Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2020

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781501749278
Related ISBNs:
9781501749285, 9781501749261, 9781501749254
Publisher:
Cornell University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Cynthia J. Cranford
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Medicine, Sociology
Reading Age:
18 and up
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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