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Author Cranford, Cynthia, author.

Title Home care fault lines : understanding tensions and creating alliances / Cynthia J. Cranford.

Publication Info. Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020.
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 220 pages) : illustrations.
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Series The culture and politics of health care work
Culture and politics of health care work.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "This book is an in-depth analysis of how workers and recipients of home care craft flexibility and security in relation to one another within constraints defined by intersecting social inequalities, state funding, labor market policies and managerial rules"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Home care services -- California -- Los Angeles.
Home care services.
California -- Los Angeles.
Home health aides -- California -- Los Angeles.
Home health aides.
Older people -- Home care -- California -- Los Angeles.
Older people -- Home care.
People with disabilities -- Home care -- California -- Los Angeles.
People with disabilities -- Home care.
Home care services -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Ontario -- Toronto.
Home health aides -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Older people -- Home care -- Ontario -- Toronto.
People with disabilities -- Home care -- Ontario -- Toronto.
MEDICAL / Nursing Home Care.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Cranford, Cynthia. Home care fault lines Ithaca [New York] : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020. 9781501749254 (DLC) 2019046918
ISBN 9781501749278 (electronic book)
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9781501749254 (hardcover)
1501749250 (hardcover)
9781501749261 (paperback)
1501749269 (paperback)

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