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Personal Support Workers in Canada: The New Precariat?
There has been much recent discussion internationally about the emergence in modern society of a new class of workers – the precariat – with a common consciousness based on features such as low wages, insecurity, short-term jobs, minority status and restricted rights. This paper critically explores...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5749522/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29274225 http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2017.25324 |
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description | There has been much recent discussion internationally about the emergence in modern society of a new class of workers – the precariat – with a common consciousness based on features such as low wages, insecurity, short-term jobs, minority status and restricted rights. This paper critically explores the extent to which the growing, large-scale group of personal support workers (PSWs) can be viewed as part of a new precariat in terms of their position in the healthcare labour market. Drawing on currently available empirical data, this issue is examined particularly with reference to PSWs in Canada – drawing out some of the implications for government health policy in this sphere. |
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spelling | pubmed-57495222018-11-01 Personal Support Workers in Canada: The New Precariat? Zagrodney, Katherine Saks, Mike Healthc Policy Discussion and Debate There has been much recent discussion internationally about the emergence in modern society of a new class of workers – the precariat – with a common consciousness based on features such as low wages, insecurity, short-term jobs, minority status and restricted rights. This paper critically explores the extent to which the growing, large-scale group of personal support workers (PSWs) can be viewed as part of a new precariat in terms of their position in the healthcare labour market. Drawing on currently available empirical data, this issue is examined particularly with reference to PSWs in Canada – drawing out some of the implications for government health policy in this sphere. Longwoods Publishing 2017-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5749522/ /pubmed/29274225 http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2017.25324 Text en Copyright © 2017 Longwoods Publishing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 License, which permits rights to copy and redistribute the work for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is given proper attribution. |
spellingShingle | Discussion and Debate Zagrodney, Katherine Saks, Mike Personal Support Workers in Canada: The New Precariat? |
title | Personal Support Workers in Canada: The New Precariat? |
title_full | Personal Support Workers in Canada: The New Precariat? |
title_fullStr | Personal Support Workers in Canada: The New Precariat? |
title_full_unstemmed | Personal Support Workers in Canada: The New Precariat? |
title_short | Personal Support Workers in Canada: The New Precariat? |
title_sort | personal support workers in canada: the new precariat? |
topic | Discussion and Debate |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5749522/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29274225 http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2017.25324 |
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