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The Labour Crisis in Long Term Care
The Right to Care
9781035340293 Edward Elgar Publishing
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Incorporating in-depth historical and empirical research, this book examines the widely acknowledged crisis in the long term care labour force. A diverse array of experts compare labour force strategies in Canada, Norway and Sweden and invite readers to rethink approaches to the long term care labour force, starting with the lives of those who do the work.
Incorporating in-depth historical and empirical research, this book examines the widely acknowledged crisis in the long term care labour force. A diverse array of experts compare labour force strategies in Canada, Norway and Sweden and invite readers to rethink approaches to the long term care labour force, starting with the lives of those who do the work.
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Incorporating in-depth historical and empirical research, this book examines the widely acknowledged crisis in the long term care labour force. A diverse array of experts compare labour force strategies in Canada, Norway and Sweden and invite readers to rethink approaches to the long term care labour force, starting with the lives of those who do the work.
Focusing on different dominant strategies, chapter authors analyze how innovative approaches might be employed to reorganize, retain, reduce, replace, and recruit workers. They assess each strategy in terms of promoting the right to care and explore limitations on the right to access quality care services and the right to provide quality long term care. Ultimately, they argue that the conditions of work are the conditions of care, conditions that include the overall structures, policies and practices that shape the work and care.
The Labour Crisis in Long Term Care is a thought-provoking book that will appeal to students and researchers in health services, aging, labour policy, sociology of work and social work. Managers, researchers and leaders in health care and health policy decision-makers will also benefit from this important resource.
Focusing on different dominant strategies, chapter authors analyze how innovative approaches might be employed to reorganize, retain, reduce, replace, and recruit workers. They assess each strategy in terms of promoting the right to care and explore limitations on the right to access quality care services and the right to provide quality long term care. Ultimately, they argue that the conditions of work are the conditions of care, conditions that include the overall structures, policies and practices that shape the work and care.
The Labour Crisis in Long Term Care is a thought-provoking book that will appeal to students and researchers in health services, aging, labour policy, sociology of work and social work. Managers, researchers and leaders in health care and health policy decision-makers will also benefit from this important resource.
Critical Acclaim
‘Health care quality suffers from profound misunderstanding of its constraints and allowances. In this extraordinarily stimulating book, Pat Armstrong’s group explains exactly why and how these problems arise. They explore the intertwining of conditions of care work and those of residents in long-term care, and the burden placed on those (primarily women) who provide and receive it. They also flag current tendencies that undermine best care practices. Let’s hope all these governments are listening!’
– Karen Messing, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
‘The contributing authors, all eminent experts on the political economy of care, provide a refreshing look at current problems in their respective countries, and offer persuasive arguments for treating the right to care and dignity in work for care providers as two sides of the equation in meeting new challenges.’
– Miriam Glucksmann, Essex University, UK
– Karen Messing, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
‘The contributing authors, all eminent experts on the political economy of care, provide a refreshing look at current problems in their respective countries, and offer persuasive arguments for treating the right to care and dignity in work for care providers as two sides of the equation in meeting new challenges.’
– Miriam Glucksmann, Essex University, UK
