Journal article
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