Race, Resistance, and Restructuring

Emerging Skills in the New Social Services

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10550260
AutoresDonna Baines (0000-0003-3569-0083, McMaster University, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume53
Fascículo2
Páginas123-131
Data de publicação2008-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0037-8046 • E-ISSN: 1545-6846
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/sw/53.2.123
PMID18595446
OpenAlexW2114347982
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11

Since the introduction of the first neoliberal budgets in the mid-1980s, Canadian social service workers have had ample reason to resist changes in their work lives. Drawing on literature as well as on themes emerging from an intentionally diverse subset of data collected as part of a multiyear study, this article explores the resistance strategies of female, First Nations social workers and social workers of color in relation to changing work structures and power relations in their workplaces. Given their location in ethnically specific services and programs, racialized workers have been affected differently by restructuring and have, in turn, resisted these changes with different outcomes. Indeed, rather than the deskilling common to the sector, First Nations workers and workers of color have generated new, culturally sensitive practice skills. This article analyzes how the marginalized position of many workers of color and Aboriginal workers has shaped the kinds of resistance strategies they use within their paid and unpaid work in the restructured social services arena. The article explores the issue of unpaid work as an important but contradictory form of resistance among social workers. It concludes with suggestions for teaching and practicing in the new social services

Library science · Management · Political science · Race (biology · Resistance (ecology · Restructuring · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Medicine · Social Work Education and Practice · Gerontology · Social Work