Jane Aronson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3931455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Aronson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Aronson |
| SIGNATURE | ARONSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 244 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Global aging and comparative research
Identity Work and Critical Social Service Management
Prolonged institutional rearing is associated with atypically large amygdala volume and difficulties in emotion regulation
Early adversity, for example poor caregiving, can have profound effects on emotional development. Orphanage rearing, even in the best circumstances, lies outside of the bounds of a species‐typical caregiving environment. The long‐term effects of this early adversity on the neurobiological development associated with socio‐emotional behaviors are not well understood. Seventy‐eight children, who include those who have experienced orphanage care and…
“I like to be an informed person but…” negotiating responsibility for treatment decisions in cancer care
Managing Restructured Social Services
This paper reports the early findings of a qualitative, longitudinal study of women managing health and social services in southern Ontario—a context that has been subject to successive rounds of restructuring and managerial reforms. Study participants, all women with extensive practice backgrounds and long-standing commitments to progressive public services, were critical of yet deeply implicated in organizational practices they judged at odds w…
Obscuring the costs of home care
This study of displaced home care workers reveals how managed competition serves to produce a flexible and atomized work force. Laid off when their nonprofit employer could not compete in the local home care market, workers blamed their employer and their union for their jeopardy. Obscured from local view was the role of government policy in offloading services to the market, benefiting privileged participants in the hospital, professional and ma…
Market-Modelled Home Care in Ontario
Jane Aronson, Margaret Denton, Isik Zeytinoglu, Market-Modelled Home Care in Ontario: Deteriorating Working Conditions and Dwindling Community Capacity, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Mar., 2004), pp. 111-125
Exposing failures, unsettling accommodations
This article aims to augment collective understandings of the ethical complexities of qualitative research, and to encourage more attention to the actual practices of interviewing than has usually been paid in discussions in this area. Drawing on interview transcripts, we offer an analysis of the ways vulnerability may be produced for research participants by the intersection of interview factors (an interview strategy, the interviewer's presence…
Elderly people's accounts of home care rationing
Fundamental shifts in state intervention in recent years have resulted in steady curtailment in public provision of community and social care. A longitudinal study of elderly women receiving home care in Ontario explored the reverberations of these shifts in the texture of frail elderly people's lives. Three distinct accounts of negotiating unstable and rationed home care were discernible. Taking charge was an active account of women successfully…
Manufacturing Social Exclusion in the Home Care Market
This paper examines how the health care perspective which dominates home care obscures the broader processes of social exclusion that play out in this arena of public policy. A study of elderly women and women with disabilities receiving home care in Ontario reveals how managed community care generates and reinforces service users' social isolation and their spatial, institutional, and political exclusion. Analysis of study participants' experien…
Lesbians giving and receiving care
The Retreat of the State and Long-Term Care Provision
(1997). The Retreat of the State and Long-Term Care Provision: Implications for Frail Elderly People, Unpaid Family Carers and Paid Home Care Workers. Studies in Political Economy: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 37-66
Home care workers discuss their work
You're Not Just in There to Do the Work
Community care for frail elderly people rests heavily on the work of low-status, paraprofessional home care workers. Home care workers describe their work as highly personalized caring labor that often seeps out of its formal boundaries into informal, unpaid activities. Although these activities are valued by workers, their supervisors, elderly clients, and family members, they represent uncompensated and exploited labor. Cost-cutting trends in h…
Lesbians in Social Work Education
Building on my experience as a lesbian faculty member in a School of Social Work, this article explores the embedding of heterosexism in the institutional practices of the university and the social service enterprise. The personal and political processes of claiming visibility as a lesbian and the implications for challenging social work curriculum and knowledge-building are considered. This analysis, filtered through readers' knowledge of their …
Giving Consumers a Say in Policy Development
This paper focuses on the trend to involve consumers in public policy-making and implementation. The development of long-term care policies for elderly people in Ontario is examined as an illustrative case to explore the purposes and accomplishments of such initiatives. Building upon analysis of policy documents, observation of a community consultation process and debates in the literature on consumer participation and on the politics of needs in…
Women's Sense of Responsibility for the Care of Old People
Drawing on a qualitative study of women who cared for their elderly mothers, this article explores women's experiences of feeling responsible for elderly relatives. The minimal provision of public services for old people and the relative absence of brothers and husbands from family caregiving emerge as material constraints shaping women's sense of obligation. This is affirmed by ideologies and assumptions about women's association with caring and…
Women's Perspectives on Informal Care of the Elderly
Drawing on a qualitative study of thirty-two women aged between 35 and 85, this paper links women's experiences of giving and receiving care in the informal sphere to their wider social and ideological context. While subjects subscribed to cultural assumptions about families, responsibility, gender and old age, they experienced awkwardness in translating them into their own lives. Younger women and women looking back on their middle years experie…
Women's Sense of Responsibility for the Care of Old People
Drawing on a qualitative study of women who cared for their elderly mothers, this article explores women's experiences of feeling responsible for elderly relatives. The minimal provision of public services for old people and the relative absence of brothers and husbands from family caregiving emerge as material constraints shaping women's sense of obligation. This is affirmed by ideologies and assumptions about women's association with caring and…
You're Not Just in There to Do the Work
Community care for frail elderly people rests heavily on the work of low-status, paraprofessional home care workers. Home care workers describe their work as highly personalized caring labor that often seeps out of its formal boundaries into informal, unpaid activities. Although these activities are valued by workers, their supervisors, elderly clients, and family members, they represent uncompensated and exploited labor. Cost-cutting trends in h…
Obscuring the costs of home care
This study of displaced home care workers reveals how managed competition serves to produce a flexible and atomized work force. Laid off when their nonprofit employer could not compete in the local home care market, workers blamed their employer and their union for their jeopardy. Obscured from local view was the role of government policy in offloading services to the market, benefiting privileged participants in the hospital, professional and ma…
Manufacturing Social Exclusion in the Home Care Market
This paper examines how the health care perspective which dominates home care obscures the broader processes of social exclusion that play out in this arena of public policy. A study of elderly women and women with disabilities receiving home care in Ontario reveals how managed community care generates and reinforces service users' social isolation and their spatial, institutional, and political exclusion. Analysis of study participants' experien…
Exposing failures, unsettling accommodations
This article aims to augment collective understandings of the ethical complexities of qualitative research, and to encourage more attention to the actual practices of interviewing than has usually been paid in discussions in this area. Drawing on interview transcripts, we offer an analysis of the ways vulnerability may be produced for research participants by the intersection of interview factors (an interview strategy, the interviewer's presence…
Lesbians giving and receiving care
The Retreat of the State and Long-Term Care Provision
(1997). The Retreat of the State and Long-Term Care Provision: Implications for Frail Elderly People, Unpaid Family Carers and Paid Home Care Workers. Studies in Political Economy: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 37-66
Identity Work and Critical Social Service Management
Managing Restructured Social Services
This paper reports the early findings of a qualitative, longitudinal study of women managing health and social services in southern Ontario—a context that has been subject to successive rounds of restructuring and managerial reforms. Study participants, all women with extensive practice backgrounds and long-standing commitments to progressive public services, were critical of yet deeply implicated in organizational practices they judged at odds w…
Home care workers discuss their work
Market-Modelled Home Care in Ontario
Jane Aronson, Margaret Denton, Isik Zeytinoglu, Market-Modelled Home Care in Ontario: Deteriorating Working Conditions and Dwindling Community Capacity, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Mar., 2004), pp. 111-125
Elderly people's accounts of home care rationing
Fundamental shifts in state intervention in recent years have resulted in steady curtailment in public provision of community and social care. A longitudinal study of elderly women receiving home care in Ontario explored the reverberations of these shifts in the texture of frail elderly people's lives. Three distinct accounts of negotiating unstable and rationed home care were discernible. Taking charge was an active account of women successfully…
Women's Perspectives on Informal Care of the Elderly
Drawing on a qualitative study of thirty-two women aged between 35 and 85, this paper links women's experiences of giving and receiving care in the informal sphere to their wider social and ideological context. While subjects subscribed to cultural assumptions about families, responsibility, gender and old age, they experienced awkwardness in translating them into their own lives. Younger women and women looking back on their middle years experie…
Giving Consumers a Say in Policy Development
This paper focuses on the trend to involve consumers in public policy-making and implementation. The development of long-term care policies for elderly people in Ontario is examined as an illustrative case to explore the purposes and accomplishments of such initiatives. Building upon analysis of policy documents, observation of a community consultation process and debates in the literature on consumer participation and on the politics of needs in…
Global aging and comparative research
Lesbians in Social Work Education
Building on my experience as a lesbian faculty member in a School of Social Work, this article explores the embedding of heterosexism in the institutional practices of the university and the social service enterprise. The personal and political processes of claiming visibility as a lesbian and the implications for challenging social work curriculum and knowledge-building are considered. This analysis, filtered through readers' knowledge of their …
Women's Perspectives on Informal Care of the Elderly
Drawing on a qualitative study of thirty-two women aged between 35 and 85, this paper links women's experiences of giving and receiving care in the informal sphere to their wider social and ideological context. While subjects subscribed to cultural assumptions about families, responsibility, gender and old age, they experienced awkwardness in translating them into their own lives. Younger women and women looking back on their middle years experie…
Women's Sense of Responsibility for the Care of Old People
Drawing on a qualitative study of women who cared for their elderly mothers, this article explores women's experiences of feeling responsible for elderly relatives. The minimal provision of public services for old people and the relative absence of brothers and husbands from family caregiving emerge as material constraints shaping women's sense of obligation. This is affirmed by ideologies and assumptions about women's association with caring and…
Giving Consumers a Say in Policy Development
This paper focuses on the trend to involve consumers in public policy-making and implementation. The development of long-term care policies for elderly people in Ontario is examined as an illustrative case to explore the purposes and accomplishments of such initiatives. Building upon analysis of policy documents, observation of a community consultation process and debates in the literature on consumer participation and on the politics of needs in…
Lesbians in Social Work Education
Building on my experience as a lesbian faculty member in a School of Social Work, this article explores the embedding of heterosexism in the institutional practices of the university and the social service enterprise. The personal and political processes of claiming visibility as a lesbian and the implications for challenging social work curriculum and knowledge-building are considered. This analysis, filtered through readers' knowledge of their …
Home care workers discuss their work
You're Not Just in There to Do the Work
Community care for frail elderly people rests heavily on the work of low-status, paraprofessional home care workers. Home care workers describe their work as highly personalized caring labor that often seeps out of its formal boundaries into informal, unpaid activities. Although these activities are valued by workers, their supervisors, elderly clients, and family members, they represent uncompensated and exploited labor. Cost-cutting trends in h…
The Retreat of the State and Long-Term Care Provision
(1997). The Retreat of the State and Long-Term Care Provision: Implications for Frail Elderly People, Unpaid Family Carers and Paid Home Care Workers. Studies in Political Economy: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 37-66
Lesbians giving and receiving care
Manufacturing Social Exclusion in the Home Care Market
This paper examines how the health care perspective which dominates home care obscures the broader processes of social exclusion that play out in this arena of public policy. A study of elderly women and women with disabilities receiving home care in Ontario reveals how managed community care generates and reinforces service users' social isolation and their spatial, institutional, and political exclusion. Analysis of study participants' experien…
Elderly people's accounts of home care rationing
Fundamental shifts in state intervention in recent years have resulted in steady curtailment in public provision of community and social care. A longitudinal study of elderly women receiving home care in Ontario explored the reverberations of these shifts in the texture of frail elderly people's lives. Three distinct accounts of negotiating unstable and rationed home care were discernible. Taking charge was an active account of women successfully…
Exposing failures, unsettling accommodations
This article aims to augment collective understandings of the ethical complexities of qualitative research, and to encourage more attention to the actual practices of interviewing than has usually been paid in discussions in this area. Drawing on interview transcripts, we offer an analysis of the ways vulnerability may be produced for research participants by the intersection of interview factors (an interview strategy, the interviewer's presence…
Market-Modelled Home Care in Ontario
Jane Aronson, Margaret Denton, Isik Zeytinoglu, Market-Modelled Home Care in Ontario: Deteriorating Working Conditions and Dwindling Community Capacity, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Mar., 2004), pp. 111-125
Obscuring the costs of home care
This study of displaced home care workers reveals how managed competition serves to produce a flexible and atomized work force. Laid off when their nonprofit employer could not compete in the local home care market, workers blamed their employer and their union for their jeopardy. Obscured from local view was the role of government policy in offloading services to the market, benefiting privileged participants in the hospital, professional and ma…
Prolonged institutional rearing is associated with atypically large amygdala volume and difficulties in emotion regulation
Early adversity, for example poor caregiving, can have profound effects on emotional development. Orphanage rearing, even in the best circumstances, lies outside of the bounds of a species‐typical caregiving environment. The long‐term effects of this early adversity on the neurobiological development associated with socio‐emotional behaviors are not well understood. Seventy‐eight children, who include those who have experienced orphanage care and…
“I like to be an informed person but…” negotiating responsibility for treatment decisions in cancer care
Managing Restructured Social Services
This paper reports the early findings of a qualitative, longitudinal study of women managing health and social services in southern Ontario—a context that has been subject to successive rounds of restructuring and managerial reforms. Study participants, all women with extensive practice backgrounds and long-standing commitments to progressive public services, were critical of yet deeply implicated in organizational practices they judged at odds w…
Identity Work and Critical Social Service Management
Global aging and comparative research
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)