The political and economic context of home care work in California

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• Personal Author:
  Delp L ; Muntaner C
• Description:
  California's primarily female, ethnically diverse home care workforce is at the intersection of the public and private spheres of work and at the front line of recurring policy and budget debates targeting government-funded long-term care services. The convening of a Home Care Research Working Group in 2001 has led to collaborative action research initiatives and advocacy for policies to improve working conditions and home care services. The study reported here demonstrates that: 1) current long-term care policy is inadequate to ameliorate home care stressors such as physical and emotional demands, schedule conflicts, financial strain, and job insecurity; 2) workers' experience of home care differs by gender and by race or ethnic group; and 3) a union that actively engages workers is a viable avenue to provide individual support and empowerment as well as collective advocacy for home care services, critical in an era of attacks against health and social service programs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Stress, Psychological Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accidents Emotional-stress Health-protection Household-workers Humans Injuries Physical-capacity Physical-stress Psychological-effects Psychological-factors Safety-measures Sociological-factors Work-environment Worker-health Workers

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• ISSN:
  1048-2911
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  441-464
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041799
• Citation:
  New Solut 2010 Oct; 20(4):441-464
• Contact Point Address:
  Linda Delp, UCLA-LOSH, 10945 Le Conte Ave., Suite 2107, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1478
• Email:
  ldelp@ucla.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Performing Organization:
  University of California - Los Angeles
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20080801
• Source Full Name:
  New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
• End Date:
  20100731
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3134f93087800d3c9397227622910543586d57cf4dfc850d4b170a47b76b2c873ffed148ac8473fa9be541a9b5741bf6254bd7e73686f100ac898c7cbda29032
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194257/cdc_194257_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 133.89 KB ]