Caretaking as Articulation Work: The Effects of Taking up Responsibility for a Child With Asthma on Labor Force Participation  

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Timmermans, Stefan ; Freidin, Betina

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 65 no. 7 (Oct. 2007), page 1351-1363.
Topik: US; Asthma; Care work; Employment; Qualitative research

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.15 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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A well-established quantitative literature has documented the financial toll for women's caretaking. Still, we do not know much about the process by which women end up taking on an extensive caretaking role and what they do on a daily basis. Based on in-depth interviews with a convenience sample of fifty caretakers of school aged children with asthma and nine health professionals in the USA, this study examines how health professionals socialize mothers into an intensive caretaking role for their children with asthma, how mothers negotiated and perform that role, and the impact of care work on their labor force participation. Care providers assign broad caretaking tasks that require further articulation work to get the job done. Although mothers care for their children in varied ways, caring for a child with a chronic disease remains a time-consuming activity. Mothers pay a price for the indeterminate nature of articulation work by scaling back their involvement in the paid labor force.

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