SeVen Experiences of care work “They should be a lot more honest [about the nature of the work].... Because I think people tend to be put off because of the bad press that they get. And that tends to highlight like the bad things rather than the positive things.” (Debra Henry, a foster carer) This chapter sets out to document the everyday reality of working with vulnerable children in both home and institutional settings. There is a fairly substantial literature on the attractions of care work with vulnerable children and their families, whether this be
93 SEVEN Care work In the previous chapter we explored care and its generic realisation in a variety of social relations. Although care can be viewed through the lens of moral philosophy – as a moral duty that is realised through a set of practices embodying distinct virtues – care itself, we argued, can only ever be socially realised within particular forms of relationship. Questions such as who should receive and who should provide care, how and where care should be delivered, and what care means to those who are carers and to those who are cared for
nIne Managing care work and family life Introduction An important part of the jigsaw in understanding childcare workers’ lives remains, namely how as parents and family members childcare workers managed to combine their work and other care responsibilities – how they connected their public and private worlds, not only over time but also on a daily basis. For these workers, caring was an intrinsic part of both work and family life, a condition with the potential to add to tensions and overload typically experienced by those juggling work and family
FoUR Entering care work with vulnerable children Introduction Making sense of people’s lives and the stories they tell is a complex task. As described in Chapter Two, in the case studies we teased out the ‘biographical facts’ of care workers’ lives and the contexts in which their lives were lived from the interpretations they provided as interview informants. Both the accounts of interviewees and the way we as researchers analyse them are multilayered. In this book we have disentangled accounts about the origins of their orientations to care (Chapter
499 International Journal of Care and Caring • vol 2 • no 4 • 499–513 • © Policy Press 2018 Print ISSN 2397-8821 • Online ISSN 2397-883X • https://doi.org/10.1332/239788218X15321005058057 article Workforce diversity and conflicts in care work: managers’ perspectives Jill Manthorpe, jill.manthorpe@kcl.ac.uk Jess Harris, jess.harris@kcl.ac.uk Jo Moriarty, jo.moriarty@kcl.ac.uk Martin Stevens, martin.stevens@kcl.ac.uk King’s College London, UK The care workforce in England is ethnically diverse yet little is known of how managers manage this aspect of human
69 Children’s involvement in domestic and ‘caring’ work FOUR Children’s involvement in domestic and ‘caring’ work: new insights Introduction The origins of this book lie in a critique that we, and others, had made of the conceptual construction of some disabled parents’ children as ‘young carers’. (The historical background and key arguments of this critique were discussed in Chapter One of this book.) It is natural, then, that we would want to look in detail here at the extent of children’s involvement in domestic and ‘caring’ work, as well as the context in
241 FOURTEEN Care-work policies: conceptualising leave within a broader framework1 Sara Mazzucchelli, Luca Pesenti and M. Letizia Bosoni Introduction Since the early 1990s, the demand for Parental Leave and formal ECEC services has been increasing in all European countries as more women have entered the labour market (Annesley, 2007). Although the EU Directive on Parental Leave has obliged member states to introduce appropriate legislation, significant differences in this leave can still be found among countries in relation to eligibility, duration
Introduction I would like to begin by thanking the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the organising partners, in particular, Mignon Duffy and her wonderful team, for the opportunity to present the International Labour Organization ( ILO, 2018 ) report Care Work and Care Jobs for the Future of Decent Work at this second Global Carework Summit and to discuss its contribution with my remarkable keynote fellow panelists. 1 The report is one of the main outcomes of the Women at Work Centenary Initiative that the ILO Directorate-General launched in 2013 to
321 Families, Relationships and Societies • vol 8 • no 2 • 321–40 • ©Policy Press • 2019 ISSN 2046 7435 • ISSN 2046 7466 • https://doi.org/10.1332/204674318X15241492154458 Accepted for publication 07 April 2018 • First published online 23 April 2018 article Interrelated parenting practices: conceptual foundations of involvement in care work at the transition to parenthood Eva-Maria Schmidt, eva-maria.schmidt@univie.ac.at Irene Rieder, irene.rieder@univie.ac.at Ulrike Zartler, ulrike.zartler@univie.ac.at Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria Numerous studies
7 International Journal of Care and Caring • vol 2 • no 1 • 7–25 • © Policy Press 2018 Print ISSN 2397-8821 • Online ISSN 2397-883X • https://doi.org/10.1332/239788218X15187914933434 article Learning to care: work experiences and identity formation among African immigrant care workers in the US Fumilayo Showers, fshowers@ccsu.edu Central Connecticut State University, USA Drawing from ethnographic data, this article investigates the work experiences of a group of African immigrants in the US care industry. By highlighting their strategies for coping with
