SOC352H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Real Wages, Emotional Labor, Managed Care
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Home care versus institutional care to date, aides working in facilities havereceived considerable attent ion from sociologists, gerontologists, and scholarsof long-term care. In contrast, research on home-based aides is relatively scant, Perhaps few researchers consider whether or how home care aides differ fromother long- term care workers because, on the surface, the occupationallocations and work tasks of aides in home a nd institutional settings appearidentical. I present worker descriptions of home care, detailing howpaid caregiving taxes aides financially, physi cally, and emotionally. Home care aides often work without health or retirement benefits, aresubjected to unpredictable wor k hours, and can suffer injury providing hands-oncare. The space of work since home care takes place in private space, it is notsurprising that some of the stre ss, as well as the rewards, stem from thevariable physical. Tammy, a stay-at-home wife and mother, offered her services and, over a four-year period, became.
