by External Article | Jan 30, 2023 | Caring for a Client, For Professional Caregivers, Working Family Caregivers |
How did it come to be that health care is the largest sector of employment in the United States? And why is health care work so much more precarious and less heavily unionized than the dominant industries of eras past? Health care workplaces have replaced steel mills... 
by External Article | Apr 22, 2021 | Care Work Library, Caregiver Stories |
When industrial employment dominated the nation’s economy, such worlds were formed around the lives of the industrial working class. And when industry left, the social worlds that it sustained began to crumble. What emerged in its place was a recomposition not only... 
by External Article | Mar 31, 2021 | Care Work Library, Caregiver Stories |
The replacement of blue-collar work by pink-collar work has been much discussed, but what makes this book stand out is Winant’s argument that two seemingly distinct phenomena are in fact inextricably connected: “It was not a coincidence that care labor grew as... 
by External Article | Mar 17, 2021 | Care Work Library, For Professional Caregivers |
While there are many projects that require blue-collar work, there’s little reason to treat such employment as an end in itself. In the long view, it seems not to be a category of labor for which our economy generates consistent demand. Yet there are other kinds of... 
by External Article | Nov 6, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Client, For Professional Caregivers, Housing |
The category that the Census calls “health care and social assistance” is the largest sector of employment in the country, accounting for about one in seven jobs nationwide. It encompasses hospitals, clinics, labs, long-term care facilities, home care, and social work... 
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