Obscuring the costs of home care: Restructuring at work

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-45

  Aronson, Jane ^a,c   Neysmith, Sheila M ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Home care policy; Home care work; Job insecurity; Restructuring; Work narratives

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745211673     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017006061272     Document Type: Article

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