Precarious Intimacies and Narratives of the Transnational Care Economy in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-132
Author(s):  
Silvia Schultermandl
Keyword(s):  
Care Economy

Work-from-home during COVID-19: Accounting for the care economy to build back better

2021 ◽  
pp. 103530462098360
Author(s):  
Fiona Jenkins ◽  
Julie Smith
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Rapid Adaptation ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Jel Codes ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Adaptive Capabilities ◽  
Care Economy ◽  
A Site

In the COVID-19 pandemic, people’s dwellings suddenly became a predominant site of economic activity. We argue that, predictably, policy-makers and employers took the home for granted as a background support of economic life. Acting as if home is a cost-less resource that is free for appropriation in an emergency, ignoring how home functions as a site of gendered relations of care and labour, and assuming home is a largely harmonious site, all shaped the invisibility of the imposition. Taking employee flexibility for granted and presenting work-from-home as a privilege offered by generous employers assumed rapid adaptation. As Australia emerges from lockdown, ‘building back better’ to meet future shocks entails better supporting adaptive capabilities of workers in the care economy, and of homes that have likewise played an unacknowledged role as buffer and shelter for the economy. Investing in infrastructure capable of providing a more equitable basis for future resilience is urgent to reap the benefits that work-from-home offers. This article points to the need for rethinking public investment and infrastructure priorities for economic recovery and reconstruction in the light of a gender perspective on COVID-19 ‘lockdown’ experience. JEL Codes: E01, E22, J24

Culture, institution and diverse approaches to care and care work in East Asia

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ito Peng
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
Family Responsibility ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Family ◽  
Private Market ◽  
Care Economy ◽  
Policy Incentives

This article describes two broad approaches to care and care work within a spectrum of approaches that are evident in East Asia: one that accepts care as a core public policy agenda, and tries to leverage it as a potential engine to activate the incipient care economy; and the other, that sees care as strictly private family responsibility, and hence opts to partially underwrite the familial care with a mix of tax and policy incentives through the private market – including creating channels for families to outsource care to foreign migrant care workers. The author uses elder care policies to illustrate ways in which socio-cultural ideas and institutional history shape national policies, and how these policies in turn shape ways in which care is delivered, and care work organized within the family and in the market.

Finding the Context Indigenous Innovation in Village Enterprise Knowledge Structure: A Topic Modeling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Retno Kusumastuti ◽  
Mesnan Silalahi ◽  
Anugerah Yuka Asmara ◽  
Ria Hardiyati ◽  
Visnhu Juwono
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Topic Models ◽  
Knowledge Structure ◽  
Indigenous Innovation ◽  
Care Economy ◽  
Set Up

Abstract Indigenous people have deep local knowledge of environmental sustainability and natural resource utilization, which are sources of innovations that often are drivers for economic growth in rural areas. This study explores the knowledge structure of indigenous innovation in village enterprises through content analysis of research publications. The resulting knowledge structure can be used to set up a roadmap for the studies on village enterprise and in a broader context to build metadata as a foundation for an evaluation system of village enterprise. The authors deploy topic modeling and co-word analyses to scrutinize 775 village enterprise research articles from the Scopus database and 665 paper from ScienceDirect. In the topic modeling, topic models village enterprises are setup. The topics found are local ownership (such as market and property), land, services (housing, health care), economy and public policy, financial service micro-credit, environmental pollution control, local business sustainability, social entrepreneurship, and household income, bioenergy based electrification, and bumdes management. Four sectors of the natural resource-based indigenous economy were identified: traditional food production, bio-energy for fuel and electricity, agriculture, and tourism. The topic models are used to comprehend knowledge structure in the village enterprises whereby the focus is to uncover the context of indigenous village enterprise and its states of the art.

scholarly journals Revised Infection Prevention Society (IPS) Competences 2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Denton ◽  
Carole Fry ◽  
Helen O’Connor ◽  
Jude Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Workforce Development ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Infection Prevention And Control ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Staff Appraisal ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Care Economy ◽  
And Control

Competences for infection prevention and control (IPC) practitioners were first introduced by the Infection Control Nurses Association (ICNA) in 2000. In recent years, they have been revised by the Education and Professional Development Committee of the Infection Prevention Society (IPS). The competences are a multi-purpose tool to support and inform service and workforce development and management at an operational and strategic level. They can assist in designing education programmes, help with staff appraisal, personal development plans and support revalidation alongside developing team structures and requirements. They enable the practitioner to review their own current position of progression and clinical standing from the position of assisted, supervised and independent. These terms are designed to assist the user to express the level of competence at which they work. This may differ depending on the competences that are being explored. This current version of the IPS competences (2018) have been designed to reflect the current structures and practices within the health and social care economy. They have been redeveloped within an electronic interactive framework to encourage usability and assist with manageability and record keeping. The competency framework tool is intended as a guide; the idea is for the practitioner to focus on relevant aspects of the competences and combine with organisational and individual goals and revalidation where applicable.

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