Unmasking the enterprising nurse
Migrant Care Workers and the Discursive Mobilisation of Productive Professionals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2249195 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antero Olakivi (0000-0002-7011-8536, Department of social research University of Helsinki Finland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 428-442 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.12493 |
| PMID | 27611112 |
| OpenAlex | W2514862663 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 46 |
Public care work organisations in Northern Europe often seek to increase their economic efficiency in ways that care workers criticise for reducing both their professional autonomy and the quality of care. Recently, the ideal of 'enterprising nursing' has emerged as a political belief according to which economic efficiency, care workers' autonomy and the quality of care can be improved in tandem by cultivating care workers' agential abilities. This article examines the reception of this belief among migrant care workers in Finland. Drawing on research interviews, the analysis demonstrates how migrant care workers may have difficulties in aligning themselves with the enterprising ideals but also in protesting them. Ethnicity, and the status of a migrant, can offer resources for both constructing enterprising subjectivities and reframing care workers' agency, and their organisational environment, in more critical terms
Agency (philosophy) · Autonomy · Care work · Cognitive reframing · Ethnic group · Political science · Public relations · Quality (philosophy) · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology
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Handbook of Constructionist Research
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Care work in changing welfare states
The Subject and Power
Deconstructing Difference
Questions of Cultural Identity
The Professions and Social Structure
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Subjectivity or Psycho-Discursive Practices? Investigating Complex Intersectional Identities
The dilemma of ‘the capable actor’ and the case of disrupted lives
Performativity and helping professions
Agency and power
Neoliberal postcolonialism in the media
New Public Management, care and struggles about recognition
Distinguishing the Power of Agency from Agentic Power
Reformulations of agentless talk in psychotherapy
Post-Foucauldian governmentality
The logic of strategic ignorance
The Appeal to 'Professionalism' as a Disciplinary Mechanism
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Educated Caring
Choice and Chance
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Finding dignity in dirty work
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Constructing notions of healthcare productivity
Beyond Agency
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |