Vulnerabilities in Paid Care Work

Sophie Bowlby is Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Reading. Her research interests are in geographies of informal and formal care work and friendship.Marjut Jyrkinen is Professor of Working Life Equality and Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests relate to gender, age, care and careers in management and organisations. Mandisa Malinga is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. Her research interests include gender, precarious work and its impact on masculinities and fatherhood and care work.Kathy Sanderson is Associate Professor of Human Resources in the Faculty of Business Administration at Lakehead University. Her research focuses on reducing pain in the workplace.

• 1. Care and Vulnerabilities: Ideas, Concepts, Methods – Marjut Jyrkinen, Sophie Bowlby, Mandisa Malinga and Ryan Hron2. Valuing Caring: Domiciliary Care Work in England’s ‘Care Crisis’ During and Post COVID-19 - Caitlin Bawn, Sophie Bowlby, Linda McKie and Dilesh Shah3. Gender, Migration and Their Intersections: Domestic Workers’ Stories of Care in South Africa – Carmine Rustin, Floretta Boonzaier and Mandisa Malinga4. Understanding the Long-Term Retention of Personal Support Workers in Canadian Home and Long-Term Care – Kathy Sanderson and Ryan Hron5. Vulnerabilities in Care Work: Perspectives of Migrant and LGBT Care Workers in Finland – Tytti Suominen, Jukka Lehtonen, Marjut Jyrkinen and Liina Lohikoski6. Reconceptualising Precarity and Agency: New Ways Forward – Kathy Sanderson, Caitlin Bawn, Floretta Boonzaier and Jukka Lehtonen

“Cross-national comparisons of care work are intelligently discussed in this readable book. Common themes abound around vulnerability, invisibility and policy makers' short-lived interest.” Jill Manthorpe CBE, The Policy Institute, King's College London