The Routledge Handbook of Social Care Work Around the World - "Complexities, tensions, and promising practices: Work in Canadian long-term residential care."

The Routledge Handbook of Social Care Work Around the World provides both a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. It is the first handbook to cover social care work research from around the world, including both low- and middle-income countries as well as high income countries. Each of the 22 chapters […]

Divided province: Ontario politics in the age of neo-liberalism - "Reforming health services in Ontario: Contradictions."

No government jurisdiction in Canada has so radically transformed its public policies over the past decades as Ontario, and yet the province has also maintained a striking degree of political stability in its party system. Since the 1990s, neoliberalism has been the point of reference in constructing policy agendas for all of Ontario's political parties. […]

Change and continuity: Canadian political economy in the new millennium

In a period characterized by growing social inequality, precarious work, the legacies of settler colonialism, and the emergence of new social movements, Change and Continuity presents innovative interdisciplinary research as a guide to understanding Canada’s political economy and a contribution to progressive social change. Engaging with interconnected topics that include shifts in immigration policy, labour […]

Staying alive: Critical perspectives in health, illness, and care - "Women, health and care."

Now in its third edition, Staying Alive provides readers with a fresh perspective on health, health care, and illness in Canada and abroad. Aiming to bring about positive change to these health care systems and grounded in a human rights approach to health, this unique collection includes chapters on the social construction of illness and disability, social […]

The privatization of care: The case of nursing homes. - "Promoting public care."

Nursing homes are where some of the most vulnerable live and work. In too many homes, the conditions of work make it difficult to make care as good as it can be. For the last eight years an international team from Germany, Sweden, Norway, the UK, the US and Canada have been searching for promising […]

The privatization of care: The case of nursing homes - "Shifting responsibilities for care: The experiences of staff and families in long-term residential care."

Nursing homes are where some of the most vulnerable live and work. In too many homes, the conditions of work make it difficult to make care as good as it can be. For the last eight years an international team from Germany, Sweden, Norway, the UK, the US and Canada have been searching for promising […]

The privatization of care: The case of nursing homes - "Privatization of long-term residential care in Canada: The case of three provinces."

Nursing homes are where some of the most vulnerable live and work. In too many homes, the conditions of work make it difficult to make care as good as it can be. For the last eight years an international team from Germany, Sweden, Norway, the UK, the US and Canada have been searching for promising […]

Vulnerable: The policy, law and ethics of COVID-19 - "Privatization and COVID-19: A deadly combination for nursing homes."

Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19 confronts the vulnerabilities that have been revealed by the pandemic and its consequences. It examines vulnerabilities for people who have been harmed or will be harmed by the virus directly and those harmed by measures taken to slow its relentless march; vulnerabilities exposed in our institutions, governance, […]

Privatization, hybridization and resistance in contemporary care work."

Beyond digital capitalism: New ways of living: Socialist register 2021 - "Start early, stay late: Planning for care in old age."

As digital technology became integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades of the 21st century, it not only refashioned our ways of communicating but of working and consuming, indeed ways of living. The Covid-19 pandemic revealed not only the lack of investment, planning and preparation that underlay the scandalous slowness of the […]