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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresList of TablesForeword by Margaret K. NelsonAcknowledgmentsPart I Paid Care WorkChapter 1. On the Clock, Off the Radar: Paid Care Work in the United StatesMignon Duffy, Amy Armenia, and Clare L. StaceyChapter 2. Beyond Outsourcing: Paid Care Work in Historical PerspectiveMignon DuffyPart II Contexts of CareChapter 3. The Best of Both Worlds? How Direct Care Workers Perceive Home Health Agencies and Long-Term-Care InstitutionsKim Price-Glynn and Carter RakovskiChapter 4. The Business of Caring: Women’s Self-Employment and the Marketization of CareNickela Anderson and Karen D. HughesChapter 5. Are Frontline Healthcare Jobs “Good” Jobs? Examining Job Quality across Occupations and Healthcare SettingsJanette S. DillChapter 6. Orienting End-of-Life Care: The Hidden Value of Hospice Home VisitsCindy CainPart III Hazards of CareChapter 7. The Health Hazards of Health Care: Physical and Psychosocial Stressors in Paid Care WorkAlicia Kurowski, Jon Boyer, and Laura PunnettChapter 8. When the Home Is a Workplace: Promoting Health and Safety for a Vulnerable WorkforcePia Markkanen, Margaret Quinn, and Susan SamaChapter 9. Part of the Job? Workplace Violence and Social ServicesJennifer ZetocaulnickChapter 10. Double Isolation: Immigrants and Older Adult Care Work in CanadaIvy BourgeaultPart IV Identities and Meaning MakingChapter 11. The Caring Professional? Nurse Practitioners, Social Work, and the Performance of ExpertiseLaTonya J. TrotterChapter 12. Building a Professional Identity: Boundary Work and Meaning Making among West African Immigrant NursesFumilayo ShowersChapter 13. Ethnic Logics: Race and Ethnicity in Nanny EmploymentCameron Lynne MacdonaldChapter 14. Caring or Catering? Emotions, Autonomy, and Subordination in Lifestyle WorkRachel ShermanPart V: Work and FamilyChapter 15. Low-Wage Care Workers: Extended Family as a Strategy for SurvivalNaomi Gerstel and Dan ClawsonChapter 16. “It’s Like a Family”: Caring Labor, Exploitation, and Race in Nursing HomesLisa Dodson and Rebekah M. ZincavageChapter 17. Caught between Love and Money: The Experiences of Paid Family CaregiversClare L. Stacey and Lindsey L. AyersChapter 18. Paying Family Caregivers: Parental Leave and Gender Equality in SwedenMary K. ZimmermanPart VI: Paths to ChangeChapter 19. For Children and Self: Understanding Collective Action among Early Childhood EducatorsClare HammondsChapter 20. Creating Expertise and Autonomy: Family Day Care Providers’ Attitudes toward ProfessionalizationAmy ArmeniaChapter 21. Building a Movement of Caring Selves: Organizing Direct Care WorkersDeborah L. LittleChapter 22. Healthy Diversity: Promoting a Diverse Healthcare Workforce Through Innovative PartnershipsMichelle C. Haynes, Meg A. Bond, Robin A. Toof, Teresa Shroll, and Michelle D. HolmbergChapter 23. Building Meaningful Career Lattices: Direct Care W...
