Partial protection? The regulation of home care workers’ working conditions

Sara Charlesworth

Chapter 6 in Regulating for Equitable and Job-Rich Growth, 2017, pp 125-150 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter aims to contribute to better understandings of the gendered regulatory context within which the remuneration and working conditions for home care work are negotiated and determined. Focusing on the Australian case, it highlights a dynamic process of formalization and informalization of employment standards in home care work. The chapter analyses both the incomplete process of formalization in respect to home care work until the late 1990s, and the more patchy process of informalization since that time, driven as much by outsourcing and government funding models as by changes in labour regulation.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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