Who Cares?: Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health Workers
Who Cares?: Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health Workers - Paperback is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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Who Cares?: Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health Workers - Paperback is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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The recent global pandemic highlighted the crucial role played by (mostly female) care workers in providing health services across the world. At the same time, it exposed the deep vulnerabilities and precarities of their lives―abysmally low wages, long working hours, social prejudice, notorious undervaluation―at the hands of an uncaring and exploitative economic system.The editors of this volume identify this as ‘care extractivism’, a strategy that enables the simultaneous extraction and undervaluation of care work, something in which governments and societies are both complicit. Further, they point to the impact of liberalization and professionalization on the political economy of nursing wherein the market principle of cost efficiency leads to informalization, contract labour and hierarchization of nursing in both private and public hospitals.The contributors to this important and timely book draw attention to the varied histories of health care work in India and of Indian nurses abroad. They look also at the recent struggles through which workers have tried to improve their working conditions and which represent a silver lining as they imbibe the potential to disrupt the chain of undervaluation, cost cutting, and poor quality healthcare.
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