Using feminist political economy, this article argues that companions hired privately by
families to care for residents in publicly funded long-term care facilities (nursing homes) are …

Nursing, personal care, food and cleaning are publicly funded in Ontario's long-term care
facilities, but under-staffing usually renders all but the most basic of personal preferences …

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) …

Exploring long-term residential care (Ontario, Canada), we argue that within the context of
late neoliberalism, care time is political, contested, and multi-scalar. Multi-scalar time …

Using a critical feminist theoretical lens, we followed 17 families for one year–as they
attempted to make the transition from welfare to work–eliciting narrative accounts of their day …

Aim To understand self‐employed long‐term‐care workers' experiences of precariousness,
and to unravel how their experiences are shaped at the intersection of gender, class, race …

Domiciliary carers are paid care workers who travel to the homes of older people to assist
with personal routines. Increasingly, over the past 20 years, the delivery of domiciliary care …

How can parental leave design be more socially inclusive? Should all parents be entitled to
parental benefits or only those parents who are eligible based on a particular level of labour …

This article explores the operation of gender and industrial relations in long‐term care work
or nursing home work,'from within'the experience of the predominantly female workforce in …

Most current sociological approaches to work recognise that the same activity may be
undertaken within a variety of socio-economic forms-formal or informal, linked with the …