Caring on the Clock
The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work
Published on 22. January 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
978-0-8135-6311-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"A significant contribution to the field of care work, Caring on the Clock addresses important questions about how we conceptualize, theorize, and value care, as well as how public policy both rewards and devalues care work." - Mary Tuominen (Denison University) "This superb volume showcases the rich interdisciplinary literature on commodified carework. With sophistication and flair, contributors analyze the stark exploitation of paid careworkers, the nuances of client-carer interactions, and labor struggle to improve pay and conditions in this skyrocketing field." - Ruth Milkman (City University of New York Graduate Center) "A comprehensive insight into the complex relationship between market care, funding, policy, organisations and time for carers....It approaches these issues insightfully, and with lessons that can be used in multiple jurisdictions....This volume is...pertinent, still illuminating in a field that has seen exponential explosion of research in recent years." (Labor and Industry)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New Brunswick NJ
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
6 figures, 15 tables
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
484 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8135-6311-4 (9780813563114)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
MIGNON DUFFY is an associate professor of sociology and the associate director of the Center for Women and Work at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the author of Making Care Count: A Century of Gender, Race, and Paid Care Work (Rutgers University Press). AMY ARMENIA is an associate professor of sociology at Rollins College, and has published research in Work and Occupations, the Journal of Family Issues, and Social Science Research. CLARE L. STACEY is associate professor of sociology at Kent State University and author of The Caring Self: The Work Experiences of Home Care Aides.
Content
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword by Margaret K. Nelson
Acknowledgments
Part I Paid Care Work
Chapter 1. On the Clock, Off the Radar: Paid Care Work in the United States
Mignon Duffy, Amy Armenia, and Clare L. Stacey
Chapter 2. Beyond Outsourcing: Paid Care Work in Historical Perspective
Mignon Duffy
Part II Contexts of Care
Chapter 3. The Best of Both Worlds? How Direct Care Workers Perceive Home Health Agencies and Long-Term-Care Institutions
Kim Price-Glynn and Carter Rakovski
Chapter 4. The Business of Caring: Women's Self-Employment and the Marketization of Care
Nickela Anderson and Karen D. Hughes
Chapter 5. Are Frontline Healthcare Jobs "Good" Jobs? Examining Job Quality across Occupations and Healthcare Settings
Janette S. Dill
Chapter 6. Orienting End-of-Life Care: The Hidden Value of Hospice Home Visits
Cindy Cain
Part III Hazards of Care
Chapter 7. The Health Hazards of Health Care: Physical and Psychosocial Stressors in Paid Care Work
Alicia Kurowski, Jon Boyer, and Laura Punnett
Chapter 8. When the Home Is a Workplace: Promoting Health and Safety for a Vulnerable Workforce
Pia Markkanen, Margaret Quinn, and Susan Sama
Chapter 9. Part of the Job? Workplace Violence and Social Services
Jennifer Zetocaulnick
Chapter 10. Double Isolation: Immigrants and Older Adult Care Work in Canada
Ivy Bourgeault
Part IV Identities and Meaning Making
Chapter 11. The Caring Professional? Nurse Practitioners, Social Work, and the Performance of Expertise
LaTonya J. Trotter
Chapter 12. Building a Professional Identity: Boundary Work and Meaning Making among West African Immigrant Nurses
Fumilayo Showers
Chapter 13. Ethnic Logics: Race and Ethnicity in Nanny Employment
Cameron Lynne Macdonald
Chapter 14. Caring or Catering? Emotions, Autonomy, and Subordination in Lifestyle Work
Rachel Sherman
Part V: Work and Family
Chapter 15. Low-Wage Care Workers: Extended Family as a Strategy for Survival
Naomi Gerstel and Dan Clawson
Chapter 16. "It's Like a Family": Caring Labor, Exploitation, and Race in Nursing Homes
Lisa Dodson and Rebekah M. Zincavage
Chapter 17. Caught between Love and Money: The Experiences of Paid Family Caregivers
Clare L. Stacey and Lindsey L. Ayers
Chapter 18. Paying Family Caregivers: Parental Leave and Gender Equality in Sweden
Mary K. Zimmerman
Part VI: Paths to Change
Chapter 19. For Children and Self: Understanding Collective Action among Early Childhood Educators
Clare Hammonds
Chapter 20. Creating Expertise and Autonomy: Family Day Care Providers' Attitudes toward Professionalization
Amy Armenia
Chapter 21. Building a Movement of Caring Selves: Organizing Direct Care Workers
Deborah L. Little
Chapter 22. Healthy Diversity: Promoting a Diverse Healthcare Workforce Through Innovative Partnerships
Michelle C. Haynes, Meg A. Bond, Robin A. Toof, Teresa Shroll, and Michelle D. Holmberg
Chapter 23. Building Meaningful Career Lattices: Direct Care Workers in Long-Term Care
Jennifer Craft Morgan and Brandy Farrar
Epilogue: Making Care Work
Mignon Duffy, Clare Stacey, and Amy Armenia
References
Notes on Contributors
Index
List of Tables
Foreword by Margaret K. Nelson
Acknowledgments
Part I Paid Care Work
Chapter 1. On the Clock, Off the Radar: Paid Care Work in the United States
Mignon Duffy, Amy Armenia, and Clare L. Stacey
Chapter 2. Beyond Outsourcing: Paid Care Work in Historical Perspective
Mignon Duffy
Part II Contexts of Care
Chapter 3. The Best of Both Worlds? How Direct Care Workers Perceive Home Health Agencies and Long-Term-Care Institutions
Kim Price-Glynn and Carter Rakovski
Chapter 4. The Business of Caring: Women's Self-Employment and the Marketization of Care
Nickela Anderson and Karen D. Hughes
Chapter 5. Are Frontline Healthcare Jobs "Good" Jobs? Examining Job Quality across Occupations and Healthcare Settings
Janette S. Dill
Chapter 6. Orienting End-of-Life Care: The Hidden Value of Hospice Home Visits
Cindy Cain
Part III Hazards of Care
Chapter 7. The Health Hazards of Health Care: Physical and Psychosocial Stressors in Paid Care Work
Alicia Kurowski, Jon Boyer, and Laura Punnett
Chapter 8. When the Home Is a Workplace: Promoting Health and Safety for a Vulnerable Workforce
Pia Markkanen, Margaret Quinn, and Susan Sama
Chapter 9. Part of the Job? Workplace Violence and Social Services
Jennifer Zetocaulnick
Chapter 10. Double Isolation: Immigrants and Older Adult Care Work in Canada
Ivy Bourgeault
Part IV Identities and Meaning Making
Chapter 11. The Caring Professional? Nurse Practitioners, Social Work, and the Performance of Expertise
LaTonya J. Trotter
Chapter 12. Building a Professional Identity: Boundary Work and Meaning Making among West African Immigrant Nurses
Fumilayo Showers
Chapter 13. Ethnic Logics: Race and Ethnicity in Nanny Employment
Cameron Lynne Macdonald
Chapter 14. Caring or Catering? Emotions, Autonomy, and Subordination in Lifestyle Work
Rachel Sherman
Part V: Work and Family
Chapter 15. Low-Wage Care Workers: Extended Family as a Strategy for Survival
Naomi Gerstel and Dan Clawson
Chapter 16. "It's Like a Family": Caring Labor, Exploitation, and Race in Nursing Homes
Lisa Dodson and Rebekah M. Zincavage
Chapter 17. Caught between Love and Money: The Experiences of Paid Family Caregivers
Clare L. Stacey and Lindsey L. Ayers
Chapter 18. Paying Family Caregivers: Parental Leave and Gender Equality in Sweden
Mary K. Zimmerman
Part VI: Paths to Change
Chapter 19. For Children and Self: Understanding Collective Action among Early Childhood Educators
Clare Hammonds
Chapter 20. Creating Expertise and Autonomy: Family Day Care Providers' Attitudes toward Professionalization
Amy Armenia
Chapter 21. Building a Movement of Caring Selves: Organizing Direct Care Workers
Deborah L. Little
Chapter 22. Healthy Diversity: Promoting a Diverse Healthcare Workforce Through Innovative Partnerships
Michelle C. Haynes, Meg A. Bond, Robin A. Toof, Teresa Shroll, and Michelle D. Holmberg
Chapter 23. Building Meaningful Career Lattices: Direct Care Workers in Long-Term Care
Jennifer Craft Morgan and Brandy Farrar
Epilogue: Making Care Work
Mignon Duffy, Clare Stacey, and Amy Armenia
References
Notes on Contributors
Index