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For The Children: Accounting For Careers In Child Protective Services, Joan M. Morris
For The Children: Accounting For Careers In Child Protective Services, Joan M. Morris
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
This paper analyzes autobiographical essays from women who work as social service workers in child-protection agencies. Working long hours in relatively low-paying jobs, these women have limited prestige and autonomy and increasingly, come under close scrutiny and public criticism. They are clearly exploited in terms of the emotional and "mothering" labor they are expected to perform and are held personally accountable for daily decisions that could have dire consequences for the children they serve to protect. This paper is an investigation of how their narratives explain and justify their willingness to continue working in these situations and how their professional …
Living Wages And The Retention Of Homecare Workers In San Francisco, Candace Howes
Living Wages And The Retention Of Homecare Workers In San Francisco, Candace Howes
Economics Faculty Publications
This study records the impact on workforce retention of the nearly doubling of wages for homecare workers in San Francisco County over a 52-month period. Using descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis I find that the annual retention rate of new providers rose from 39 percent to 74 percent following significant wage and benefit increases and that a $1 increase in the wage rate from $8 an hour – the national average wage for homecare – would increase retention by 17 percentage points. I also show that adding health insurance increases the retention rate by 21 percentage points.
Great Expectations' Defeated?: The Trajectory Of Collective Bargaining Regimes In Canada And The U.S. Post-Nafta, Eric Tucker
Great Expectations' Defeated?: The Trajectory Of Collective Bargaining Regimes In Canada And The U.S. Post-Nafta, Eric Tucker
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From the beginning of the free-trade era one contentious area has been the impact of trade liberalization on labor law. Opponents of NAFTA (and some supporters) predicted a regulatory race to the bottom (RTB) would ensue leading to increasingly deregulated labor markets. The result would be weaker collective bargaining laws, lower minimum standards, and a decline in the social wage. In recent years a number of scholars have examined the question in light of more than fifteen years experience under CUFTA and ten under NAFTA and there seems to be a growing consensus that, contrary to those 'great expectations', labor …
Immigration: Mind Over Matter, Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
Immigration: Mind Over Matter, Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
Broken Fences: Legal And Practical Realities Of Immigration Reform In The Post-9/11 Age, Jeanne A. Butterfield
Broken Fences: Legal And Practical Realities Of Immigration Reform In The Post-9/11 Age, Jeanne A. Butterfield
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.