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Community-based personal support workers’ responses to health and safety risks: tensions between individual and collective responsibility

Abstract

Across sectors, neo-liberal logics render individual workers responsible for health and safety while limiting public protections against hazards. This article considers how ‘responsibilisation’ strategies shape responses to health and safety risks among community-based personal support workers in Ontario, Canada. Using mixed-methods data, we consider how structural and demographic conditions exacerbate risks. We argue that the relational …

Authors

Barken R; Denton M; Brookman C; Davies S; Zeytinoglu IU

Journal

International Journal of Care and Caring, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 459–478

Publisher

Bristol University Press

Publication Date

November 1, 2020

DOI

10.1332/239788220x15929332017232

ISSN

2397-8821

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