Individualising Risk

This book investigates how paid care work and employment are being transformed by policies of social care individualisation in the context of new gig economies of care. Drawing on a case study of the creation of a new individualised care market under Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme the book provides important insights into possible futures for social care employment where care is treated as an individual consumer service. Bringing together sociological, political science and socio-legal approaches the book demonstrates how, in individualised care markets and with ineffective labour laws, risks of business and employment are devolved to frontline care workers. The book argues for an urgent re-evaluation of current policy approaches to care and for new regulatory approaches to protect workers in diverse forms of employment.

Speaks to a number of current debates around work and employment and public policy and provides new data on emerging work and employment arrangements Provides a new lens through which to examine the practice and impacts of personalisation policies Extends analyses of personalised care systems through its detailed investigation of the construction of care markets and of paid care work and workers in a personalised system

Autorentext
Fiona Macdonald is a senior research fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research has centred on the impacts of changing labour markets and employment arrangements, combining ethnographic studies with regulatory and policy analyses.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Social care work matters.- Chapter 2. Marketisation and cash-for-care.- Chapter 3. Perspectives on personalisation and the English social care experience.- Chapter 4. Imagining, making & managing cash for care in Australia.- Chapter 5: Regulating work, constructing workers.- Chapter 6. The emerging market for individualised support and care.- Chapter 7. Care work, individualisation and risk.- Chapter 8. Individualised risk: Isolation and fragmentation.- Chapter 9. Changing course towards decent work.