Individualising risk : paid care work in the new gig economy / Fiona Macdonald.
2021
HV40.8.A8 M33 2021
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Title
Individualising risk : paid care work in the new gig economy / Fiona Macdonald.
ISBN
9813363665 (electronic book)
9789813363663 (electronic bk.)
9789813363656
9813363657
9789813363663 (electronic bk.)
9789813363656
9813363657
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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10.1007/978-981-33-6366-3 doi
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HV40.8.A8 M33 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
361.30994
Summary
This book investigates how paid care work and employment are being transformed by policies of social care individualisation in the context of new gig economies of care. Drawing on a case study of the creation of a new individualised care market under Australias National Disability Insurance Scheme the book provides important insights into possible futures for social care employment where care is treated as an individual consumer service. Bringing together sociological, political science and socio-legal approaches the book demonstrates how, in individualised care markets and with ineffective labour laws, risks of business and employment are devolved to frontline care workers. The book argues for an urgent re-evaluation of current policy approaches to care and for new regulatory approaches to protect workers in diverse forms of employment. Fiona Macdonald is a senior research fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research has centred on the impacts of changing labour markets and employment arrangements, combining ethnographic studies with regulatory and policy analyses.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Social care work matters
Chapter 2. Marketisation and cash-for-care
Chapter 3. Perspectives on personalisation and the English social care experience
Chapter 4. Imagining, making & managing cash for care in Australia
Chapter 5: Regulating work, constructing workers
Chapter 6. The emerging market for individualised support and care
Chapter 7. Care work, individualisation and risk
Chapter 8. Individualised risk: Isolation and fragmentation
Chapter 9. Changing course towards decent work.
Chapter 2. Marketisation and cash-for-care
Chapter 3. Perspectives on personalisation and the English social care experience
Chapter 4. Imagining, making & managing cash for care in Australia
Chapter 5: Regulating work, constructing workers
Chapter 6. The emerging market for individualised support and care
Chapter 7. Care work, individualisation and risk
Chapter 8. Individualised risk: Isolation and fragmentation
Chapter 9. Changing course towards decent work.