Kim England
Biographic Data
| ID | 247448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim England |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | England |
| SIGNATURE | ENGLAND K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6160-7760 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1206 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Growing care gaps, shrinking state? Home care workers and the Fair Labor Standards Act
Home care work will be among the fastest growing jobs in the USA in the next 10 years, linked to the increase in people aged over 65. Located at the intersection of health care, social policy and the state, home care work is notable for its low pay, job insecurity and irregular hours. The legal and economic precarity of home care workers has roots in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). We analyse the FLSA and subsequent amendments regarding…
At home with the boss: Migrant live‐in caregivers, social reproduction and constrained agency in the UK , Canada, Austria and Switzerland
In many countries of the global North, families increasingly rely on live‐in caregivers to look after their children and elderly. Although much care work remains unpaid and informal, several states have set up a variety of migration and labour regimes to guarantee a steady supply of workers to provide paid live‐in care in the home. This paper contributes to a broadening of the focus of labour geography beyond “productive” labour by factoring in t…
Positionality
Positionality initially emerged from critiques of omniscient, unmarked researchers producing supposedly value‐free, impartial research. Beginning from the premise that knowledge is partial, situated, and power‐laden, positionality highlights how people, including researchers, are differently positioned in hierarchies of power and privilege and thus come to know and interpret the world from different social locations. The researcher's positionalit…
Geography and Geographers: Anglo-American Human Geography since 1945, 7th Edition
Ron Johnston and James D. Sidaway. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xxii and 544 pp., figures, index. $64.95 paper (ISBN 9780340985106); $165.00 cloth (ISBN 9780415827379).Spring 2016 saw the
Home, domestic work and the state: The spatial politics of domestic workers’ activism
This article explores the spatialities associated with the recent emergence of a social movement of domestic workers in the United States. Domestic work is rendered invisible, not only as a form of ‘real work’, but also because it is hidden in other people’s homes. The article unpacks the home as a private space beyond government intervention, and as domestic worker activists argue, when homes are workplaces workers should be protected from explo…
Nurses across borders: Global migration of registered nurses to the US
Like many other global north countries, the US is facing a nursing shortage. In the last few years, such nursing shortages have been identified as part of a broader ‘global crisis’ in nursing. Resorting to importing internationally educated nurses is a popular strategy to address the shortfall. Importing nurses into the US is not new. However, the current shortage is different because of greatly intensified efforts to recruit nurses from overseas…
Commentary 3
Care work, migration and citizenship: International nurses in the UK
Recent debates about nursing shortages in the Global North are part of a broader global nursing workforce crisis. Western governments have been increasing their recruitment of international nurses to fill their shortages, but this accelerates the global migration of nurses. The UK is a key node in global nurse migration. The increase in international nurse migration has profound consequences for both the sending and receiving countries, as well a…
Migrant Workers in Home Care: Routes, Responsibilities, and Respect
We consider the increasingly common provision of home-based health care by migrant care workers. In particular, we explore the racial division of paid reproductive care and ideas about embodied work to show that although (im)migrants tend to fall to the bottom of the hierarchy of care work, the reasons are multifaceted and complex. We draw on interview data from a larger study of long-term home care in Ontario to explore the lived experience of c…
Managing the body work of home care
Body work is a key element of home healthcare. Recent restructuring of health and social care services means the home is increasingly a key site of long-term care. While there is a growing literature on the social dynamics between care recipients and their family caregivers, less is known about the formal work dynamic between paid care workers and care recipients and family caregivers. Drawing on interview data from an Ontario-based study of long…
Home, Work and the Shifting Geographies of Care
“The current crisis in home care suggests we must meet immediately to discuss how Ontario can best meet its commitment to all those who require home care services and to the workers who provide the
Women's Work: The Feminization and Shifting Meanings of Clerical Work
Kim England, Kate Boyer; Women's Work: The Feminization and Shifting Meanings of Clerical Work, Journal of Social History, Volume 43, Issue 2, 1 December 2
Welfare Provision, Welfare Reform, Welfare Mothers
Gender, work and technology in the information workplace: From typewriters to ATMs
We consider the relations between gender and technology in the workplace, focusing onclerical work in the information workplace, especially the finance and insurance sector.Our goal is to excavate a ‘hidden history’ of how clerical work and the artifacts whichsustain it have been understood and deployed under different cultural and economiccircumstances. We employ an analysis of technosocial relations developed in Science andTechnology Studies in…
Neoliberalizing Home Care: Managed Competition and Restructuring Home Care in Ontario
Neoliberalization: States, Networks, Peoples
Disabilities, gender and employment: Social exclusion, employment equity and Canadian banking 1
People with disabilities, especially women, suffer from appallingly high rates of poverty, and paid work is frequently cited as a primary route out of poverty. I draw on feminist analyses of work and disability studies to reflect on the Canadian federal government's Employment Equity Act. I use the example of the ‘Big Six’ banks to investigate the numerical representation and occupational distribution of women and men with disabilities compared t…
Towards a feminist political geography
Social policy at work? Equality and equity in women's paid employment in Canada
Sexing Geography, Teaching Sexualities [1]
I draw on my own experiences as a straight feminist geographer to address questions regarding teaching sexualities in geography. First, I look at `sexing’ and `queering ’ geography curricula, not only upper level undergraduate and graduate courses that lend themselves to discussions of sexualities, compulsory heterosexuality, and heterosexism, but also lower level undergraduate courses. Second, a sexual dissident’s ® rst self-disclosure to anothe…
Domestic Distinctions: Constructing difference among paid domestic workers in Toronto
Live- in paid domestic work represents a peculiar form of paid employment and employer ± employee relations. Contradictions and ambiguities arise from the domestic worker’s `workplace’ b eing her employer’s `home’; while intimacy, affective labour and a high degree of personalism veil the asymmetrical class relation between employer and employee. In T oronto, employers are often white women, while domestic workers are often (im)migrant women, esp…
They Think You're as Stupid as Your English is: Constructing Foreign Domestic Workers in Toronto
In Canada, paid domestic work is often associated with (im)migrant women from a variety of countries of origin. We critically analyse Canada's foreign domestic worker programmes, noting the shifting definitions of which nationalities should participate. We note how gendered, racialised, and classed constructions of national identities infuse these programmes. We then turn to an empirical analysis of how foreign domestic workers are constructed in…
Who will mind the baby?: Geographies of Child Care and Working Mothers
Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Labour in Contemporary Britain
Girls in the Office: Recruiting and Job Search in a Local Clerical Labor Market
In this paper I investigate local labor-market processes which are associated with clerical employment in the financial and business services. I use a case study of Columbus, Ohio, to examine the process by which individual workplaces go about recruiting women workers and how women search for paid work. This process is viewed from the perspectives of employers and women clerical workers through the interpretation of a questionnaire survey of a sa…
Getting Personal: Reflexivity, Positionality, and Feminist Research∗
Feminist and poststructural challenges to objectivist social science demand greater reflection by the researcher with the aim of producing more inclusive methods sensitive to the power relations in fieldwork. Following a discussion of contrasting approaches to these power relations, I present a reflexive examination of a research project on sexual identities. My reflections highlight some of the key ethical questions that face researchers conduct…
Suburban Pink Collar Ghettos: The Spatial Entrapment of Women
The restructuring of the U.S. economy has resulted in the expansion and suburbanization of office employment. One theory is that an attraction of suburban locations is their large supply of women whose domestic responsibilities restrict their employment prospects and job-search area, spatially entrapping themin their neighborhood of residence. Firms employing large numbers of pink collar workers may relocate to the suburbs to employ these spatial…
Managing the body work of home care
Body work is a key element of home healthcare. Recent restructuring of health and social care services means the home is increasingly a key site of long-term care. While there is a growing literature on the social dynamics between care recipients and their family caregivers, less is known about the formal work dynamic between paid care workers and care recipients and family caregivers. Drawing on interview data from an Ontario-based study of long…
Home, Work and the Shifting Geographies of Care
“The current crisis in home care suggests we must meet immediately to discuss how Ontario can best meet its commitment to all those who require home care services and to the workers who provide the
Who will mind the baby?: Geographies of Child Care and Working Mothers
Gender relations and the spatial structure of the city
Domestic Distinctions: Constructing difference among paid domestic workers in Toronto
Live- in paid domestic work represents a peculiar form of paid employment and employer ± employee relations. Contradictions and ambiguities arise from the domestic worker’s `workplace’ b eing her employer’s `home’; while intimacy, affective labour and a high degree of personalism veil the asymmetrical class relation between employer and employee. In T oronto, employers are often white women, while domestic workers are often (im)migrant women, esp…
At home with the boss: Migrant live‐in caregivers, social reproduction and constrained agency in the UK , Canada, Austria and Switzerland
In many countries of the global North, families increasingly rely on live‐in caregivers to look after their children and elderly. Although much care work remains unpaid and informal, several states have set up a variety of migration and labour regimes to guarantee a steady supply of workers to provide paid live‐in care in the home. This paper contributes to a broadening of the focus of labour geography beyond “productive” labour by factoring in t…
They Think You're as Stupid as Your English is: Constructing Foreign Domestic Workers in Toronto
In Canada, paid domestic work is often associated with (im)migrant women from a variety of countries of origin. We critically analyse Canada's foreign domestic worker programmes, noting the shifting definitions of which nationalities should participate. We note how gendered, racialised, and classed constructions of national identities infuse these programmes. We then turn to an empirical analysis of how foreign domestic workers are constructed in…
Care work, migration and citizenship: International nurses in the UK
Recent debates about nursing shortages in the Global North are part of a broader global nursing workforce crisis. Western governments have been increasing their recruitment of international nurses to fill their shortages, but this accelerates the global migration of nurses. The UK is a key node in global nurse migration. The increase in international nurse migration has profound consequences for both the sending and receiving countries, as well a…
Gender, work and technology in the information workplace: From typewriters to ATMs
We consider the relations between gender and technology in the workplace, focusing onclerical work in the information workplace, especially the finance and insurance sector.Our goal is to excavate a ‘hidden history’ of how clerical work and the artifacts whichsustain it have been understood and deployed under different cultural and economiccircumstances. We employ an analysis of technosocial relations developed in Science andTechnology Studies in…
Towards a feminist political geography
Migrant Workers in Home Care: Routes, Responsibilities, and Respect
We consider the increasingly common provision of home-based health care by migrant care workers. In particular, we explore the racial division of paid reproductive care and ideas about embodied work to show that although (im)migrants tend to fall to the bottom of the hierarchy of care work, the reasons are multifaceted and complex. We draw on interview data from a larger study of long-term home care in Ontario to explore the lived experience of c…
Women's Work: The Feminization and Shifting Meanings of Clerical Work
Kim England, Kate Boyer; Women's Work: The Feminization and Shifting Meanings of Clerical Work, Journal of Social History, Volume 43, Issue 2, 1 December 2
Home, domestic work and the state: The spatial politics of domestic workers’ activism
This article explores the spatialities associated with the recent emergence of a social movement of domestic workers in the United States. Domestic work is rendered invisible, not only as a form of ‘real work’, but also because it is hidden in other people’s homes. The article unpacks the home as a private space beyond government intervention, and as domestic worker activists argue, when homes are workplaces workers should be protected from explo…
Nurses across borders: Global migration of registered nurses to the US
Like many other global north countries, the US is facing a nursing shortage. In the last few years, such nursing shortages have been identified as part of a broader ‘global crisis’ in nursing. Resorting to importing internationally educated nurses is a popular strategy to address the shortfall. Importing nurses into the US is not new. However, the current shortage is different because of greatly intensified efforts to recruit nurses from overseas…
Sexing Geography, Teaching Sexualities [1]
I draw on my own experiences as a straight feminist geographer to address questions regarding teaching sexualities in geography. First, I look at `sexing’ and `queering ’ geography curricula, not only upper level undergraduate and graduate courses that lend themselves to discussions of sexualities, compulsory heterosexuality, and heterosexism, but also lower level undergraduate courses. Second, a sexual dissident’s ® rst self-disclosure to anothe…
Girls in the Office: Recruiting and Job Search in a Local Clerical Labor Market
In this paper I investigate local labor-market processes which are associated with clerical employment in the financial and business services. I use a case study of Columbus, Ohio, to examine the process by which individual workplaces go about recruiting women workers and how women search for paid work. This process is viewed from the perspectives of employers and women clerical workers through the interpretation of a questionnaire survey of a sa…
Changing Suburbs, Changing Women: Geographic Perspectives on Suburban Women and Suburbanization
L'A. s'interesse a la relation individu/structure spatiale. Il etudie ici la condition feminine dans le cadre de la structure spatiale sub-urbaine aux Etats-Unis. Apres un survol de la litterature d'apres-guerre sur ce sujet, une discussion est menee sur la maniere dont certains changements sociaux, notamment le developpement et l'augmentation de l'emploi salarie, ont modifie la vie des femmes des banlieues. Une etude faite a Westerville et Worth…
Growing care gaps, shrinking state? Home care workers and the Fair Labor Standards Act
Home care work will be among the fastest growing jobs in the USA in the next 10 years, linked to the increase in people aged over 65. Located at the intersection of health care, social policy and the state, home care work is notable for its low pay, job insecurity and irregular hours. The legal and economic precarity of home care workers has roots in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). We analyse the FLSA and subsequent amendments regarding…
Social policy at work? Equality and equity in women's paid employment in Canada
From “Social Justice and the City” to Women-Friendly Cities? Feminist Theory and Politics
The early 1970s was a period of immense social upheaval, with new social movements dominating the urban social landscape. Social scientists were dealing with a crisis of relevance and David Harvey's Social Justice and the City was one response to this crisis. Despite the growth of the contemporary women's movement in the early 1970s, women are practically invisible in the book. This invisibility was typical of much academic writing at the time, a…
Disabilities, gender and employment: Social exclusion, employment equity and Canadian banking 1
People with disabilities, especially women, suffer from appallingly high rates of poverty, and paid work is frequently cited as a primary route out of poverty. I draw on feminist analyses of work and disability studies to reflect on the Canadian federal government's Employment Equity Act. I use the example of the ‘Big Six’ banks to investigate the numerical representation and occupational distribution of women and men with disabilities compared t…
Reply to Susan Hanson and Geraldine Pratt
The Practical Adequacy of ‘Method in Social Science’
Gender relations and the spatial structure of the city
Changing Suburbs, Changing Women: Geographic Perspectives on Suburban Women and Suburbanization
L'A. s'interesse a la relation individu/structure spatiale. Il etudie ici la condition feminine dans le cadre de la structure spatiale sub-urbaine aux Etats-Unis. Apres un survol de la litterature d'apres-guerre sur ce sujet, une discussion est menee sur la maniere dont certains changements sociaux, notamment le developpement et l'augmentation de l'emploi salarie, ont modifie la vie des femmes des banlieues. Une etude faite a Westerville et Worth…
Suburban Pink Collar Ghettos: The Spatial Entrapment of Women
The restructuring of the U.S. economy has resulted in the expansion and suburbanization of office employment. One theory is that an attraction of suburban locations is their large supply of women whose domestic responsibilities restrict their employment prospects and job-search area, spatially entrapping themin their neighborhood of residence. Firms employing large numbers of pink collar workers may relocate to the suburbs to employ these spatial…
From “Social Justice and the City” to Women-Friendly Cities? Feminist Theory and Politics
The early 1970s was a period of immense social upheaval, with new social movements dominating the urban social landscape. Social scientists were dealing with a crisis of relevance and David Harvey's Social Justice and the City was one response to this crisis. Despite the growth of the contemporary women's movement in the early 1970s, women are practically invisible in the book. This invisibility was typical of much academic writing at the time, a…
Reply to Susan Hanson and Geraldine Pratt
Getting Personal: Reflexivity, Positionality, and Feminist Research∗
Feminist and poststructural challenges to objectivist social science demand greater reflection by the researcher with the aim of producing more inclusive methods sensitive to the power relations in fieldwork. Following a discussion of contrasting approaches to these power relations, I present a reflexive examination of a research project on sexual identities. My reflections highlight some of the key ethical questions that face researchers conduct…
Girls in the Office: Recruiting and Job Search in a Local Clerical Labor Market
In this paper I investigate local labor-market processes which are associated with clerical employment in the financial and business services. I use a case study of Columbus, Ohio, to examine the process by which individual workplaces go about recruiting women workers and how women search for paid work. This process is viewed from the perspectives of employers and women clerical workers through the interpretation of a questionnaire survey of a sa…
Who will mind the baby?: Geographies of Child Care and Working Mothers
Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Labour in Contemporary Britain
Domestic Distinctions: Constructing difference among paid domestic workers in Toronto
Live- in paid domestic work represents a peculiar form of paid employment and employer ± employee relations. Contradictions and ambiguities arise from the domestic worker’s `workplace’ b eing her employer’s `home’; while intimacy, affective labour and a high degree of personalism veil the asymmetrical class relation between employer and employee. In T oronto, employers are often white women, while domestic workers are often (im)migrant women, esp…
They Think You're as Stupid as Your English is: Constructing Foreign Domestic Workers in Toronto
In Canada, paid domestic work is often associated with (im)migrant women from a variety of countries of origin. We critically analyse Canada's foreign domestic worker programmes, noting the shifting definitions of which nationalities should participate. We note how gendered, racialised, and classed constructions of national identities infuse these programmes. We then turn to an empirical analysis of how foreign domestic workers are constructed in…
Sexing Geography, Teaching Sexualities [1]
I draw on my own experiences as a straight feminist geographer to address questions regarding teaching sexualities in geography. First, I look at `sexing’ and `queering ’ geography curricula, not only upper level undergraduate and graduate courses that lend themselves to discussions of sexualities, compulsory heterosexuality, and heterosexism, but also lower level undergraduate courses. Second, a sexual dissident’s ® rst self-disclosure to anothe…
Social policy at work? Equality and equity in women's paid employment in Canada
Disabilities, gender and employment: Social exclusion, employment equity and Canadian banking 1
People with disabilities, especially women, suffer from appallingly high rates of poverty, and paid work is frequently cited as a primary route out of poverty. I draw on feminist analyses of work and disability studies to reflect on the Canadian federal government's Employment Equity Act. I use the example of the ‘Big Six’ banks to investigate the numerical representation and occupational distribution of women and men with disabilities compared t…
Towards a feminist political geography
Neoliberalizing Home Care: Managed Competition and Restructuring Home Care in Ontario
Neoliberalization: States, Networks, Peoples
Welfare Provision, Welfare Reform, Welfare Mothers
Gender, work and technology in the information workplace: From typewriters to ATMs
We consider the relations between gender and technology in the workplace, focusing onclerical work in the information workplace, especially the finance and insurance sector.Our goal is to excavate a ‘hidden history’ of how clerical work and the artifacts whichsustain it have been understood and deployed under different cultural and economiccircumstances. We employ an analysis of technosocial relations developed in Science andTechnology Studies in…
Women's Work: The Feminization and Shifting Meanings of Clerical Work
Kim England, Kate Boyer; Women's Work: The Feminization and Shifting Meanings of Clerical Work, Journal of Social History, Volume 43, Issue 2, 1 December 2
Home, Work and the Shifting Geographies of Care
“The current crisis in home care suggests we must meet immediately to discuss how Ontario can best meet its commitment to all those who require home care services and to the workers who provide the
Managing the body work of home care
Body work is a key element of home healthcare. Recent restructuring of health and social care services means the home is increasingly a key site of long-term care. While there is a growing literature on the social dynamics between care recipients and their family caregivers, less is known about the formal work dynamic between paid care workers and care recipients and family caregivers. Drawing on interview data from an Ontario-based study of long…
Migrant Workers in Home Care: Routes, Responsibilities, and Respect
We consider the increasingly common provision of home-based health care by migrant care workers. In particular, we explore the racial division of paid reproductive care and ideas about embodied work to show that although (im)migrants tend to fall to the bottom of the hierarchy of care work, the reasons are multifaceted and complex. We draw on interview data from a larger study of long-term home care in Ontario to explore the lived experience of c…
Nurses across borders: Global migration of registered nurses to the US
Like many other global north countries, the US is facing a nursing shortage. In the last few years, such nursing shortages have been identified as part of a broader ‘global crisis’ in nursing. Resorting to importing internationally educated nurses is a popular strategy to address the shortfall. Importing nurses into the US is not new. However, the current shortage is different because of greatly intensified efforts to recruit nurses from overseas…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Economics (13 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Engineering (8 works)