Care theft: Family impacts of employer control in Australia's retail industry

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL ISSUES

Critical Social Policy Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI:10.1177/02610183231185766

N. Cortis, M. Blaxland, S. Charlesworth

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Abstract

Paid work promises pathways to financial security and wellbeing for families, yet variable scheduling and low pay can interfere with the routines and rhythms of family life, and contribute to caregiving challenges and stress. Using qualitative data from a survey of retail workers, this article shows how Australian employment policies have enabled flexibility practices to be strongly oriented around the needs of employers, reducing employees’ resources for care. We develop the concept of ‘care theft’ from employees’ accounts of the ways flexible scheduling and low pay converge to transform and deplete their temporal, financial and ethical resources for care. As an extension of ‘time theft’ and alternative to individualised notions of ‘work-family balance’, care theft helps make visible the ways employment practices strip resources for care from working people, and shift risk to low-income families and communities.

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护理盗窃:澳大利亚零售业雇主控制对家庭的影响

有偿工作为家庭提供了经济保障和幸福的途径，但不稳定的日程安排和低工资可能会干扰家庭生活的常规和节奏，并增加照顾孩子的挑战和压力。本文利用对零售工人的调查得出的定性数据，展示了澳大利亚的就业政策是如何使灵活性实践强烈地以雇主的需求为导向的，从而减少了员工的护理资源。我们从员工的描述中提出了“护理盗窃”的概念，即灵活的工作时间安排和低工资汇聚在一起，改变并耗尽了他们用于护理的时间、财务和道德资源。作为“时间盗窃”的延伸和“工作与家庭平衡”的个性化概念的替代方案，“护理盗窃”有助于让人们看到就业实践如何剥夺劳动人民的护理资源，并将风险转移给低收入家庭和社区。

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4.70

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8.70%

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期刊介绍： Critical Social Policy provides a forum for advocacy, analysis and debate on social policy issues. We publish critical perspectives which: ·acknowledge and reflect upon differences in political, economic, social and cultural power and upon the diversity of cultures and movements shaping social policy; ·re-think conventional approaches to securing rights, meeting needs and challenging inequalities and injustices; ·include perspectives, analyses and concerns of people and groups whose voices are unheard or underrepresented in policy-making; ·reflect lived experiences of users of existing benefits and services;