Individualising Risk: Paid Care Work in the New Gig Economy 9789813363663, 9789813363656

Individualising Risk: Paid Care Work in the New Gig Economy 9813363657, 9789813363656, 9789813363663

This book investigates how paid care work and employment are being transformed by policies of social care individualisat

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Thriving in the Gig Economy 9781632650955

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Temporary and Gig Economy Workers in China and Japan: The Culture of Unequal Work 0192849697, 9780192849694

While a large number of studies exist on political-economic institutional explanations for the prevalence of precarious

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Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy 9780520971783

What happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and organizational resources

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Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy 9780192517395, 0192517392

The crowdsourcing of work - the 'gig economy' - has been hailed as a 'sharing' revolution, enabling

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Making Care Count: A Century of Gender, Race, and Paid Care Work 9780813550770

There are fundamental tasks common to every society: children have to be raised, homes need to be cleaned, meals need to

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Work in the Gig Economy: A Research Overview 9780367367923, 9781032075266, 9780429351488

Throughout the last decade, the ‘gig economy’ has emerged as one of the most significant developments in the world of wo

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Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work 9780813563138

A nurse inserts an I.V. A personal care attendant helps a quadriplegic bathe and get dressed. A nanny reads a bedtime st

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Combining Paid Work and Family Care: Policies and Experiences in International Perspective 9781447306832

As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care a

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Racism and Paid Work 9781442602892

This book explicitly addresses racism in the paid workplace, showing how racism, and by corollary sexism, are systemic t

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