Caring for AmericaHome Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State

Boris, Eileen; Klein, Jennifer

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“…As argued by Hooyman and Gonyea (1995), long-term care is a central feminist issue because it depends on women’s often invisible unpaid and underpaid labor. And because it is women’s work, it is devalued work as described by Boris and Klein (2012a): Cleaning bodies as well as rooms, home care workers engage in intimate labor, a kind of toil that is at once essential and highly stigmatized, as if the mere touching of dirt or bodily fluids degrades the handler. This devaluation thesis assumes the unworthiness of the labor because of the race, class and gender of the workers.…”

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Older Women Doing Home Care: Exploitation or Ideal Job?

Butler

2013

Journal of Gerontological Social Work

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The increased need for both personal assistance workers and meaningful employment opportunities for older workers results in growing numbers of older home care aides. This study examined lifetime financial security and perceived advantages of older age in this field through interviews with 31 older home care aides. Study participants experienced high levels of financial insecurity and perceived older workers as particularly well suited to the home care job. The consequences of this low-wage, low-status work are explored along with implications for social workers to advocate for improved conditions for these workers providing essential care to frail elders.

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Older Women Doing Home Care: Exploitation or Ideal Job?

Butler

2013

Journal of Gerontological Social Work

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“…The non-medical home care sector evolved from the visiting housekeeper program for the needy funded by Medicaid and other public funds or private pays, and operates based on a social service model. 23 In this care setting, family members may become paid caregivers for older home care recipients, depending on the rules and regulations of the state of residence. Furthermore, HCAs work in a setting without Medicare’s skilled care need requirements or time restrictions.…”

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Perceived Stress and Health among Home Care Aides: Caring for Older Clients in a Medicaid-Funded Home Care Program

Muramatsu¹,

Sokas²,

Lukyanova³

et al. 2019

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

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Home care aides (HCAs) provide housekeeping and personal care services to help older clients remain in the community. However, little is known about the health of HCAs, who themselves constitute an underserved population. The goal of this study was to investigate how HCAs’ work and life contexts manifest themselves in HCAs’ health as perceived by HCAs. Six focus groups were conducted with HCAs (N=45). Analysis revealed how HCAs’ work-and life-related stress accumulated over time and affected HCAs’ health and interaction with their older clients. Home care aides were interested in personal health promotion and client well-being. Home care aides may constitute an underused resource for the care of older adults with disabilities. Information about intricately intertwined work and life contexts should inform policymakers and home care providers in their efforts to improve the quality of publicly funded home care services.

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“…Another legislative focus was the effort to eliminate the surviving exclusions of domestic workers from the New Deal labor and employment laws (some of those exclusions were eliminated in earlier decades). The groups now affiliated with NDWA also campaigned to improve enforcement of the laws that do, in principle, cover domestic workers (Boris & Klein, 2012;Goldberg, 2014;Nadasen, 2015). Enforcement is a problem across the low-wage labor market, but the challenges are unusually daunting in regard to private household workers.…”

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Low-Wage Worker Organizing and Advocacy in the USA: Comparing Domestic Workers and Day Laborers

Milkman¹

2018

Political Power and Social Theory

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This chapter compares and contrasts organizing and advocacy among US domestic workers and day laborers. These two occupations share many features: both are ill-suited to conventional unionism; immigrants, many of them unauthorized, have long dominated the workforce in both; both are entrylevel jobs at the bottom of the labor market (although both are also internally stratified); and both have been the focus of advocacy and organizing at both the local and national level in recent decades. Yet, there are also significant contrasts between the two. First and foremost, women are the vast majority of domestic workers while men predominate among day laborers. Another striking difference is that while domestic labor is hidden from public view inside private households, day laborers are regularly on display on street corners and other public spaces. This chapter explores the effects of such similarities and differences on the collective action repertoires of day laborers and domestic workers. In both cases, many workers have individualistic, entrepreneurial ambitions, a formidable organizing challenge; yet, orientation does not necessarily impede and sometimes even facilitates collective action. Day laborers' demands are largely economic, and these (predominantly male) workers often hope to return to their countries of origin; domestic workers (overwhelmingly female) are more interested in improved opportunities within the US. Although women are overrepresented in the leadership of both domestic workers' and day laborers' organizations, male day laborers and

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Caring for AmericaHome Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State

Cited by 135 publications

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Older Women Doing Home Care: Exploitation or Ideal Job?

Older Women Doing Home Care: Exploitation or Ideal Job?

Perceived Stress and Health among Home Care Aides: Caring for Older Clients in a Medicaid-Funded Home Care Program

Low-Wage Worker Organizing and Advocacy in the USA: Comparing Domestic Workers and Day Laborers

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