Working and Caring for a Child with Chronic Illness

Using an innovative, action research approach, Vickers explores the lives of women who work full time while caring for a child with significant chronic illness or disability. She demonstrates that such women can be disconnected from those around them, unsupported and overwhelmed with responsibility at home and work.

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MARGARET H. VICKERS is an Associate Professor with the School of Management, University of Western Sydney, Australia. She has extensive qualitative research experience, especially in the unexamined and traumatic experiences of individuals in the workplace in relation to illness and disability, bullying, and the impact of being made redundant. She is the author of Work and Unseen Chronic Illness: Silent Voices (2001).

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PART I: A PROBLEM IN THE SPOTLIGHT Prologue: Their Story: 'No-one ever asked about me before..' Introduction Caring and Working as Work-Home Conflict A Useful Research Design PART II: ACKNOWLEDGING THE ANGUISH Unacknowledged Grief Cruelty and Indifference Clayton's Support PART III: ENABLING SURVIVAL Working and Caring Survival, Meaning and Action Epilogue: Creating a New Story? APPENDIX: 14 Fictional Vignettes References Index