‘I don’t think they were clapping for me’. Home care workers during the covid-19 pandemic.
Authors: Read, R.
Editors: Tyler, K., Banducci, S., Degnan, C.
Publication Date: 01/01/2025
Pages: 151-175
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: London
ISBN: 9781003454137
Abstract:This chapter explores the ways in which the pandemic and Brexit have exposed and intensified long term crises within social care provision in England. I focus on home care workers who provide care to older, disabled and chronically ill people in their own homes. First, I examine how gender, class and race hierarchies have been historically embedded within home care work, reproducing it as a low status, low wage occupation within post World War Two welfare capitalism in the UK. I then focus on a case study of home care workers in southern England during 2020-2021, examining the impact of the pandemic emergency on their working conditions and experiences.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/39859/
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003454137-8/think-clapping-rosie-read
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