Care Work: Present and Future

by Boddy; Janet

• ISBN13: 9780415347723
• ISBN10: 0415347726
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

If care work is to be re-valued and reformed, who will pay? As borders between care and other adjacent fields, such as education and health, become blurred, might care work gradually merge into other types of work? What are the implications for the current workforce? In this wide-ranging and innovative book the authors critically examine current themes in care work and look at the changing face of care work and care occupations for those working with children, young people, adults and the elderly. The book guides the reader through an introduction to care work as it is widely understood today and towards a critical understanding of potential futures for care work. It is organized into two parts: the first part critically examines current themes in care work, such as the definition and boundaries of care work, characteristics of care workers, gender issues, knowledge and education and the issue of where care work takes place; the second part looks at the changing face ofcare work and care work occupations. Case studies of different types of care worker are profiled with a focus on future directions for care work. The book will be highly relevant to academic and policy audiences, and managers or practitioners working in health, social care, childcare, youth work and social policy.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Preface	ix
PART I	1	(90)
Care work, present and future: introduction	3	(15)
Peter Moss
Janet Boddy
Claire Cameron
Who are today's care workers?	18	(16)
Antonia Simon
Charlie Owen
Nineteenth-century understandings of care work	34	(16)
Pat Petrie
Knowledge and education for care workers: what do they need to know?	50	(21)
Claire Cameron
Janet Boddy
Location, location, location: the importance of place in care work with children	71	(20)
June Statham
Ann Mooney
PART II	91	(84)
The professional care worker: the social pedagogue in northern Europe	93	(18)
Janet Boddy
Claire Cameron
Pat Petrie
Mentors for children and young people who offend, or are at risk of offending: an emerging profession?	111	(17)
Ginny Greenlaw
Ian St James Roberts
Semi-formal care work: the case of private foster care	128	(17)
Edwina Peart
Charlie Owen
Sofka Barreau
Informal care across the generations	145	(18)
Ann Mooney
June Statham
The future of care work	163	(12)
Peter Moss
Claire Cameron
Janet Boddy
Appendix: research summaries	175	(5)
References	180	(11)
Index	191