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‘I don’t think they were clapping for me’. Home care workers during the covid-19 pandemic.

Year: 2025

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: This chapter explores the ways in which the pandemic and Brexit have exposed and intensified long term crises within social care provision in England. I focus on home care workers who provide care to older, disabled and chronically ill people in their own homes. First, I examine how gender, class and race hierarchies have been historically embedded within home care work, reproducing it as a low status, low wage occupation within post World War Two welfare capitalism in the UK. I then focus on a case study of home care workers in southern England during 2020-2021, examining the impact of the pandemic emergency on their working conditions and experiences.

Source: Bournemouth University Research Online (Bournemouth University)

Author: Read, Rosie

Institution: Bournemouth University

Language: English

Topic: Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Decent work and economic growth, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7019599539

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