Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Care and Vulnerabilities: Ideas, Concepts, Methods - Marjut Jyrkinen, Sophie Bowlby, Mandisa Malinga and Ryan Hron
2. Valuing Caring: Domiciliary Care Work in England's 'Care Crisis' During and Post COVID-19 - Caitlin Bawn, Sophie Bowlby, Linda McKie and Dilesh Shah
3. Gender, Migration and Their Intersections: Domestic Workers' Stories of Care in South Africa - Carmine Rustin, Floretta Boonzaier and Mandisa Malinga
4. Understanding the Long-Term Retention of Personal Support Workers in Canadian Home and Long-Term Care - Kathy Sanderson and Ryan Hron
5. Vulnerabilities in Care Work: Perspectives of Migrant and LGBT Care Workers in Finland - Tytti Suominen, Jukka Lehtonen, Marjut Jyrkinen and Liina Lohikoski
6. Reconceptualising Precarity and Agency: New Ways Forward - Kathy Sanderson, Caitlin Bawn, Floretta Boonzaier and Jukka Lehtonen
