Women, Resistance and Care

An Ethnographic Study of Nursing Auxiliary Work

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2376196
AutoresGeraldine Lee-Treweek (University of Stirling), Geraldine Lee‐treweek (University of Stirling, autor de correspondencia)
Año1997
Volumen11
Número1
Páginas47-63
Fecha de publicación1997-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWork Employment and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0950017097111003
OpenAlexW2016005402
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas79
Referencias citadas5

Paid care work has traditionally been marginalised within the sociology of work. This paper argues that this absence needs to be addressed and redressed as paid care is an increasingly important source of employment for women in Britain. Ethnographic material from a study of the labour of auxiliaries in a nursing home is used to illustrate how paid care is affected by factors similar to those which are salient in other forms of work. Like workers in non-care occupations, paid carers use resistance as an everyday strategy to get through their work. This paper argues that ethnographic approaches, favoured by sociologists who studied factory labour in the 1970s and 1980s, may prove to be crucial in revealing that care work is real work

Care work · Domestic work · Ethnography · Factory (object-oriented programming · Nursing care · Paid work · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Salient · Sociology · Work (physics · Anthropology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Gender Politics and Representation · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Mechanical Engineering