Home Care Fault Lines
Home Care Fault Lines In this revealing look at home care, Cynthia J. As Cranford shows, workers can experience devaluation within racialized and gendered class hierarchies, which shapes their…
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Home Care Fault Lines
In this revealing look at home care, Cynthia J. As Cranford shows, workers can experience devaluation within racialized and gendered class hierarchies, which shapes their pursuit of security.Cranford analyzes the tensions, alliances, and compromises between security for workers and flexibility for elderly and disabled people, and she argues that workers and recipients negotiate flexibility and security within intersecting inequalities in varying ways depending on multiple interacting dynamics.What comes through from Cranford's analysis is the need for deeply democratic alliances across multiple axes of Cranford illustrates how elderly and disabled people and the immigrant women workers who assist them in daily activities develop meaningful relationships even when their different ages, abilities, races, nationalities, and socioeconomic backgrounds generate tension.