This chapter considers the city as a crucible of resistance and change in the context of a
worldwide care deficit, growing dilemmas in care work and global austerity. The chapter …

Care work–in its paid and unpaid forms–spans the private, public and non-profit sectors in
addition to being an essential underpinning of home and community life (Duffy et al., 2015) …

A recurrent theme over the last 40 years, broadly covering the move away from
'classic'welfare statism to the neoliberal period in British politics, has been the perceived …

In the context of shifting public expenditure and related cuts to public services, the Voluntary
Sector (VS) has been given a prominent role in the organisation of social care. Government …

This introduction establishes the context for a series of articles exploring the outcomes for
work, employment, worker orientation and service quality from the emerging context of …

No detailed analyses have been undertaken comparing and contrasting how social work is
responding to the problems generated by the imposition of so-called 'austerity'measures in …

In response to the current global crisis of capitalism, the Conservative/Liberal Democrat
coalition government in the United Kingdom has imposed a policy of 'austerity', which seeks …

In the context of shifting public expenditure and related cuts to public services, the Voluntary
Sector (VS) has been given a prominent role in the organisation of social care. Government …

The concept of care is receiving heightened attention in geographical debate. In studies of
state institutions and social governance, a crisis of care is argued to have arisen with the …

This article re-analyses 105 interviews from four qualitative research studies of different
kinds of care workers in Canada and Australia, in light of deepening workplace …