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Caring for America [electronic resource] : home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein.

by Boris, Eileen, 1948-, Klein, Jennifer, 1967-

Electronic version:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

1 online resource.

Oxford scholarship online

1. Neither Nurses nor Maids -- 2. Rehabilitative Missions -- 3. Caring for the Great Society -- 4. Welfare Wars, Seventies Style -- 5. "Take Us Out of Slavery" -- 6. "The Union Is Us" -- 7. "We Were the Invisible Workforce".

9780199949496 (ebook)

0199949492 (ebook)

"This book helps to explain why there is no adequate long-term care in America. Through a sweeping analytical narrative, from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America shows how law and social policy shaped home care into a low-waged job and a means-tested social service, stigmatized as part of public welfare, primarily funded through Medicaid, and relegated to the bottom of the medical hierarchy. It became a job for African American and immigrant women that kept them in poverty, while providing independence from institutionalization for needy elderly and disabled people. But while the state organized home care, it did not do so without contestation and confrontation. Caring for America also traces the intertwined, sometimes conflicting search of care providers and receivers for dignity, self-determination, security, and personal and social worth. It highlights social movements of senior citizens and disability rights/independent living, the civil rights organizing of women on welfare and domestic workers, the battles of public sector unions, and the unionization of health and service workers. It rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of carework and the strategies of the U.S. labor movement in terms of a growing carework economy, arguing for care as a right deserving a living wage and social support."-ABSTRACT.

Eurovoc French:

profession de la santé

soins à domicile

État providence

Eurovoc English:

health care profession

Eurovoc Polish:

personel służby zdrowia

państwo opiekuńcze

Stany Zjednoczone

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