237 pages

English

Découvre YouScribe en t'inscrivant gratuitement

Je m'inscris

Home Care Fault Lines , livre ebook

Cornell University Press - J. Cranford Cynthia

Découvre YouScribe en t'inscrivant gratuitement

Je m'inscris

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne
En savoir plus

237 pages

English

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne
En savoir plus

A propos
Informations
Extrait

Description

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.

Sujets

Sociologie, société et politique

Nursing

Informations

Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 juin 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501749285
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

Informations légales : prix de location à la page 0,0800€. Cette information est donnée uniquement à titre indicatif conformément à la législation en vigueur.

Extrait

HOME CARE FAULT LINES

A volume in the series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Edited by Suzanne Gordon and Sioban Nelson

For a list of books in the series, visit our website at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu.

HOME CARE FAULT LINES Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances

Cynthia J. Cranford

ILR PRESS AN IMPRINT OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2020 by Cornell University Press Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Cranford, Cynthia, author. Title: Home care fault lines : understanding tensions and creating alliances / Cynthia J. Cranford. Description: Ithaca [New York] : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020. | Series: The culture and politics of health care work | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019046918 (print) | LCCN 2019046919 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501749254 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501749261 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501749278 (epub) | ISBN 9781501749285 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Home care services—California—Los Angeles. | Home health aides—California—Los Angeles. | Older people—Home care—California— Los Angeles. | People with disabilities—Home care—California—Los Angeles.| Home care services—Ontario—Toronto. | Home health aides—Ontario— Toronto. | Older people—Home care—Ontario—Toronto. | People with disabilities—Home care—Ontario—Toronto. Classification: LCC RA645.36.C2 C73 2020 (print) | LCC RA645.36.C2 (ebook) | DDC 362.1409794/94—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019046918 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019046919

For Rob

Contents

Acknowledgments A Note on Sources

Introduction: Tensions between Flexibility and Security 1. Gender, Migration, and the Pursuit of Security 2. Disability and the Quest for Flexibility 3. Managing Flexibility without Security in Toronto’s Direct Funding 4. Negotiating Flexibility with Security in Los Angeles’s InHome Supportive Services 5. AgencyLed Flexibility and Insecurity in Toronto’s Home Care 6. Bargaining for Security with Flexibility in Toronto’s Attendant Services 7. Toward Flexible Care and Secure Work in Intimate Labor

Appendix: Interviews and Methods Notes References Index

vii

ix xiii

107

132

151

175 179 201 213

Acknowledgments

In this book I analyze tensions between flexibility for mostly poor, disabled, and elderly people who need help with daily activities of life and security for the predominately immigrant women workers who provide this help, alongside the potential for alliances that challenge inequalities in this intimate service and labor. My own biography surely informs this focus on tensions and the hopeful quest for progressive social change. I grew up with a single mother in a working class, Southern California city but at the formative age of sixteen moved to Kenya, where I came to question much about my Christian, American upbringing. I waitressed my way through university and then found labor activism in gradu ate school. Later I settled in Canada for both secure employment and for love. My father’s stroke and forced retirement in his early sixties, the joys and responsibili ties as a mother of two young children, and the coordination of child care and emotional connections with aging parents across Canada, the United States, and the UK have more recently shaped my views on care, labor, and migration. Nev ertheless, as an ablebodied, middleaged, white woman professor with citizen ship in two rich countries, my analysis has been mainly forged in the intersection of scholarly debates and interviews with people inside the growing sector of paid elder care and disability support. I am most indebted to the people my research assistants and I interviewed. I thank especially those directly involved in receiving and providing this intimate service and labor for sharing their personal experiences and for taking the time to explain their worlds. It is their lives that I have put at the center of my analysis. I also thank the government social service representatives, employers, disability and senior advocates, and union and labor activists for sharing their viewpoints on this complex sector from various angles. I must note that my arguments do not necessarily reflect the views of the state organizations from which some of these key informants come, namely the Department of Public Social Services and Public Assistance Services Council in Los Angeles and the Community Care Access Centres in Toronto. My analysis in this book has been shaped over many years by the invaluable input of several colleagues and communitybased interlocutors. The earliest idea for the study of the tensions and possible alliances in intimate labor began through a case study I did as a postdoctoral researcher in 2001–3 at York Uni versity. I am grateful to Leah Vosko, Judy Fudge, and Eric Tucker, whose guidance

Univers
Ebooks
Livres audio
Presse
Podcasts
BD
Documents

Home Care Fault Lines , livre ebook

Sociologie, société et politique

Nursing

YouScribe

Le catalogue

Le service

Les conditions