Restructuring Caring Labour: Discourse, State Practice, and Everyday Life - Brossura

 
9780195414806: Restructuring Caring Labour: Discourse, State Practice, and Everyday Life

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This collection of essays examines how economic restructuring and changing social conditions are reshaping both the paid and unpaid work that women do. It provides an analytic framework to document in particular current trends in the responsibilities that women have in caring for others, including children, spouses, parents, and extended families. Containing original arguments and new research, the book emphasizes a feminist perspective and investigates race and class as well as gender.

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Sheila Neysmith is a professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto. She is the author of numerous works on women and labour, most recently co-editiong the second edition of Women's Caring: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare (OUP Canada, 1998). She is also the current policy and practice editor of the Canadian Journal of Aging/La Revue canadienne du viellisement.

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