PRIVATE DUTY NURSES AIDES AND THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF SICKNESS CARE IN THE HOME (HOME CARE).
Contributors: Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
Published: 1991
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations.
Description: Sickness care, a previously private family work has been commercialized in a form that is accessible to minority and/or women of color. Interviews and participant observation with thirty nurse's aides working in homes was done over ten months. The nature of their work itself, the social organization of their job, and the role of the state were explored. Findings show a process of redefinition and deskilling of nurse's aides work that results from a restructuring of the hospital/health industry and the growth of domestic service agencies. These industries are facilitated particularly by the state's policies for credentialing the health labor force. The commercialization of sickness care in the home depends on the devaluation of the nurse's aides work characterized by poverty wages, job mobility, and job instability.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-05, Section: B, page: 2499.

Thesis (PH.D.)--NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, 1991.

School code: 0163.