Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong: Introduction to the Wynford Edition
1. Introduction
2. Women's Work in the Labour Force
Female Participation in the Labour Force
The Economic Context
Industrial Segregation
Occupational Segregation
Women's Wages
Differences
Among Women
The Causation of Work
Conditions and Relations of Work
3. Women's Work in the Home
The Historical Context
Housework
Reproduction and Child Care
Care of the Elderly and the Disabled
Tension Management
Sexual Relations
4. Biological
Determinism
Difficulties in Establishing Differences
Female and Male
Feminine and Masculine
Biology and Work In The Home
Biology and Work In The Labour Force
5. Idealism
Idealist Analysis
Problems With Idealist Analysis
Symbolic Interactionism
Post-Marxist Theories
6. Materialism
The Materialist Approach
Work at Home and In The Labour Force
Employer Demands and Family Economic Needs
Women's Work In The Home and Women's Consciousness
Women's Work In The Labour Force and Women's Consciousness
Early
Learning
7. Conclusion
References
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Pat Armstrong is co-author or editor of more than a dozen books on health care, and she has also published on a wide variety of issues related to women's work and to social policy. Currently CHSRF/CIHR Chair in Heath Services and Nursing Research at York University, she has served as chair of
the Department of Sociology at York and director of the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. She was a founding partner of the 'National Network on Environments and Womens Health <http://www.yorku.ca/hschair/www.yorku.ca/nnewh>, and is the chair of Women and Health Care Reform, a
working group on health reform. Her CIHR-funded project compares conditions in Canada's long-term care facilities with those in Nordic countries, which is the first step in a longer research program. Like most of her past research, this project relies primarily on the perspectives of those who
actually provide or manage care within the system. Armstrong is a board member of the Canadian Health Coalition <http://www.healthcoalition.ca/> and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives <http://www.policyalternatives.ca/>.
Hugh Armstrong is a professor in the School of Social Work
and in the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Council on Aging of Ottawa and on the Community Advisory Committee of the Ottawa Hospital. His books include About Canada: Health Care (Halifax and Winnipeg: Ferwood Books, 2008)
and, with Pat Armstrong, Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care, Second Edition (Oxford), also recently reissued in a Wynford edition. His research interests include women and work, unions and public policy, and the political economy of health and health care.
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