Valuing Care Work: Comparative Perspectives

Contents\nAcknowledgments\nContributors\nPart One: Theoretical Considerations\n1. Conceptualizing Care Work\n2. Emplacing Care: Understanding Care Work across Social and Spatial Contexts\nPart Two: Paid Care Work in Formal Organizations\n3. In Search of Equity and Dignity in Maternity Care: Canada in Comparative Perspective\n4. Caring beyond Borders: Comparing the Relationship between Nursing Work and Migration Patterns in Canada and Finland\nPart Three: Paid Care Work in Intimate and Community Settings\n5. Patching Up the Holes: Analysing Paid Care Work in Homes\n6. My Home, Your Work, Our Relationship: Elderly Clients’ Experiences of Home Care Services\n7. Bifurcated Conscience: Aboriginal Care Workers in Community Settings\nPart Four: Unpaid Care Work in Intimate Settings\n8. Mothers’ Health, Responsibilization, and Choice in Unpaid Family Care Work after Separation/Divorce\n9. ‘Choice’ in Unpaid Intimate Labour: Adult Children with Aging Parents\n10. Spinning the Family Web: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren in Canada\nPart Five: Unpaid Care Work in Economic Organizations\n11. Voluntary Caregiving? Constraints and Opportunities for Hospital Volunteers\n12. Volunteering on the Front Line: Caring for Sex Workers in Non-profit Organizations\nPart Six: Public Policy Implications and New Directions for Research\n13. Neoliberalism, Gender, and Care Work: Trends and Challenges