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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483021403321

Autore

Grist Hannah

Titolo

Carers, Care Homes and the British Media : Time to Care / / by Hannah Grist, Ros Jennings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-35768-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (121 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

362.23

306.0941

Soggetti

Communication

Ethnology—Europe

Journalism

Social groups

Family

Media and Communication

British Culture

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Autoethnographies of Care -- 3. Little more than Fools and Monsters: Care workers in the UK Media -- 4. Conversations with Carers -- 5. Concluding Thoughts.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the relationship between the media and those who work as paid care assistants in care homes in Britain. It explores this relationship in terms of the contemporary cultural and personal understandings of care work and care homes that have developed as the role has emerged as increasingly socially and economically significant in society. Three strands of analysis are integrated: an examination of the representations of paid care workers in the British media; the experiences of current and former care workers; and the autoethnographic reflections of the authors who have experiences of working as care assistants. The book offers a rich contextual and experiential account of the responsibilities, challenges, and emotions



of care work in British society. Grist and Jennings make a case for the need to better value and more accurately represent care work in contemporary media accounts.