Vulnerabilities in Paid Care Work
eBook - ePub

Vulnerabilities in Paid Care Work

Transnational Experiences, Insights and Voices

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Vulnerabilities in Paid Care Work

Transnational Experiences, Insights and Voices

About this book

The need for paid care workers to provide professional, good quality care for those needing daily support continues to grow throughout the world.

This book explores the recent experiences of diverse paid care workers in four very different national contexts – Finland, Canada, South Africa and England – to learn from their experiences during COVID-19 and its aftermath. Drawing on care workers' own perspectives, this book shows how recruitment and retention of paid care workers remains challenging due to the pandemic and demographic changes, their precarious labour market position, low pay and the difficulties of delivering care.

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Yes, you can access Vulnerabilities in Paid Care Work by Sophie Bowlby, Marjut Jyrkinen, Mandisa Malinga, Kathy Sanderson, Sophie Bowlby,Marjut Jyrkinen,Mandisa Malinga,Kathy Sanderson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Caregiving. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of figures, tables and boxes
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. One Care and vulnerabilities: ideas, concepts, methods
  9. Two Valuing caring: domiciliary care work in England’s ‘care crisis’ during and post COVID-19
  10. Three Gender, migration and their intersections: domestic workers’ stories of care in South Africa
  11. Four Understanding the long-term retention of personal support workers in Canadian home and long-term care
  12. Five Vulnerabilities in care work: perspectives of migrant and LGBT care workers in Finland
  13. Six Reconceptualising precarity and agency: new ways forward
  14. References
  15. Index