 Individualised Risk: Isolation and FragmentationFiona Macdonald ()
Chapter Chapter 8 in Individualising Risk, 2021, pp 161-187 from Springer Abstract: Abstract This chapter continues the exploration of workers’ experiences, examining individualised risks for social care workers. Risks of isolating and individualising workers include risks arising from transfers of responsibility that occur in the individualised system and devolve decision-making and duty to individual people with disability and to frontline workers. The responsibility devolved to workers exposes workers to increased risk. At the same time, for many workers, formal recognition and reward are reduced. Risks of fragmenting work, working time and life are perhaps the most conspicuous of the individualised risks identified. These risks are also some of the most problematic for frontline workers and for the future of a skilled and sustainable workforce. They impact on workers’ ability to earn a living and enjoy time away from work and they reduce skills development opportunities and prospects. Keywords: Individualised funding; Direct employment of care workers; Gig work; Precarious employment; Labour process—care work; Working time arrangement (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-33-6366-3_8 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-981-33-6366-3_8 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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