List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword by Margaret K. Nelson
Acknowledgments
Part I Paid Care Work
Chapter 1. On the Clock, Off the Radar: Paid Care Work in the United States
Mignon Duffy, Amy Armenia, and Clare L. Stacey
Chapter 2. Beyond Outsourcing: Paid Care Work in Historical Perspective
Mignon Duffy
Part II Contexts of Care
Chapter 3. The Best of Both Worlds? How Direct Care Workers Perceive Home Health Agencies and Long-Term-Care Institutions
Kim Price-Glynn and Carter Rakovski
Chapter 4. The Business of Caring: Women's Self-Employment and the Marketization of Care
Nickela Anderson and Karen D. Hughes
Chapter 5. Are Frontline Healthcare Jobs "Good" Jobs? Examining Job Quality across Occupations and Healthcare Settings
Janette S. Dill
Chapter 6. Orienting End-of-Life Care: The Hidden Value of Hospice Home Visits
Cindy Cain
Part III Hazards of Care
Chapter 7. The Health Hazards of Health Care: Physical and Psychosocial Stressors in Paid Care Work
Alicia Kurowski, Jon Boyer, and Laura Punnett
Chapter 8. When the Home Is a Workplace: Promoting Health and Safety for a Vulnerable Workforce
Pia Markkanen, Margaret Quinn, and Susan Sama
Chapter 9. Part of the Job? Workplace Violence and Social Services
Jennifer Zetocaulnick
Chapter 10. Double Isolation: Immigrants and Older Adult Care Work in Canada
Ivy Bourgeault
Part IV Identities and Meaning Making
Chapter 11. The Caring Professional? Nurse Practitioners, Social Work, and the Performance of Expertise
LaTonya J. Trotter
Chapter 12. Building a Professional Identity: Boundary Work and Meaning Making among West African Immigrant Nurses
Fumilayo Showers
Chapter 13. Ethnic Logics: Race and Ethnicity in Nanny Employment
Cameron Lynne Macdonald
Chapter 14. Caring or Catering? Emotions, Autonomy, and Subordination in Lifestyle Work
Rachel Sherman
Part V: Work and Family
Chapter 15. Low-Wage Care Workers: Extended Family as a Strategy for Survival
Naomi Gerstel and Dan Clawson
Chapter 16. "It's Like a Family": Caring Labor, Exploitation, and Race in Nursing Homes
Lisa Dodson and Rebekah M. Zincavage
Chapter 17. Caught between Love and Money: The Experiences of Paid Family Caregivers
Clare L. Stacey and Lindsey L. Ayers
Chapter 18. Paying Family Caregivers: Parental Leave and Gender Equality in Sweden
Mary K. Zimmerman
Part VI: Paths to Change
Chapter 19. For Children and Self: Understanding Collective Action among Early Childhood Educators
Clare Hammonds
Chapter 20. Creating Expertise and Autonomy: Family Day Care Providers' Attitudes toward Professionalization
Amy Armenia
Chapter 21. Building a Movement of Caring Selves: Organizing Direct Care Workers
Deborah L. Little
Chapter 22. Healthy Diversity: Promoting a Diverse Healthcare Workforce Through Innovative Partnerships
Michelle C. Haynes, Meg A. Bond, Robin A. Toof, Teresa Shroll, and Michelle D. Holmberg
Chapter 23. Building Meaningful Career Lattices: Direct Care Workers in Long-Term Care
Jennifer Craft Morgan and Brandy Farrar
Epilogue: Making Care Work
Mignon Duffy, Clare Stacey, and Amy Armenia
References
Notes on Contributors
Index
