Meaningful or demeaning? Reconsidering the role of care workers

Project specs

Format

2D

Contact

Kirstie McAllum

Country

Canada

Funding agency

Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC), People Programme (Marie Curie Actions)

Length

03:00

Summary

This research project explores what makes work meaningful for paid care workers in home care, day care centres and residential care, and it shows how organisational representatives, clients’ families, and their own significant others can make some sources of meaningfulness invisible.

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