Social Care Work Matters

Fiona Macdonald ()
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Fiona Macdonald: RMIT University

Chapter Chapter 1 in Individualising Risk, 2021, pp 1-20 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Australia’s new cash-for-care scheme for support and care for people with disability provides a unique and important opportunity to examine the impacts of an individualised and highly marketised model of social care on the low-paid social care workforce. This book details the findings of research investigating how social care work and employment are being transformed in the new individualised social care scheme to understand the impacts of the market model for decent work. Decent work for care workers matters for the future of work, it matters for gender equality and it matters for the quality of care. This chapter introduces these arguments and provides an overview of the book.

Keywords: Gender equality; Care work; Employment; Precarious employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-33-6366-3_1

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