Women, Resistance and Care: An Ethnographic Study of Nursing Auxiliary Work

Geraldine Lee-Treweek
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Geraldine Lee-Treweek: Applied Social Science Department, University of Stirling

Work, Employment & Society, 1997, vol. 11, issue 1, 47-63

Abstract: Paid care work has traditionally been marginalised within the sociology of work. This paper argues that this absence needs to be addressed and redressed as paid care is an increasingly important source of employment for women in Britain. Ethnographic material from a study of the labour of auxiliaries in a nursing home is used to illustrate how paid care is affected by factors similar to those which are salient in other forms of work. Like workers in non-care occupations, paid carers use resistance as an everyday strategy to get through their work. This paper argues that ethnographic approaches, favoured by sociologists who studied factory labour in the 1970s and 1980s, may prove to be crucial in revealing that care work is real work.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017097111003

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