Julia Brannen
Coming to Care: The Work and Family Lives of Workers Caring for Vulnerable Children
Buch
Coming to Care offers an original contribution to the understanding of care workers in children's services in Britain in the early 21st century. The book provides fascinating insights into the factors that influence why people enter and leave care work, their motivations, and the intersection of their work with their family lives. Coming to Care focuses on four diverse groups of workers residential social workers, foster care providers, family support workers, and community childcare providers who take on the care of vulnerable children and young people in the context of relatively low levels of qualifications. The book examines their life co…
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Coming to Care offers an original contribution to the understanding of care workers in children's services in Britain in the early 21st century. The book provides fascinating insights into the factors that influence why people enter and leave care work, their motivations, and the intersection of their work with their family lives. Coming to Care focuses on four diverse groups of workers residential social workers, foster care providers, family support workers, and community childcare providers who take on the care of vulnerable children and young people in the context of relatively low levels of qualifications. The book examines their life course as care workers, and it explores the range of factors that attract people into care work, including the biographical circumstances and the serendipitous factors that propel them into care work, their understandings of and commitment to the work, and how their identities as care workers are created and sustained. Coming to Care is highly re
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Statham, June / Mooney, Ann
- ISBN: 978-1-86134-850-0
- EAN: 9781861348500
- Produktnummer: 3357729
- Verlag: Policy Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H19.2 cm x B35.0 cm x D1.6 cm 552 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 552
Über den Autor
Julia Brannen is Professor in the Sociology of the Family, June Statham is a reader in education and family support, Ann Mooney is senior research officer and Michaela Brockmann is a research officer, all based in the Thomas Coram Research Unit, University of London, UK.
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