Organizing Home Care: - School of Social Service Administration

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Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, Struggling to Provide: A Portrait of Alameda County Homecare
Workers (Berkeley: Center for Labor Research and Education, May 2002), 4-5. In New York and
Connecticut, in contrast, the workforce is predominantly people of African descent, including immigrants
from Ghana and the Caribbean. Interview by J. Klein with Griswold Homecare Associates, May 2002.
13 Phyllis Palmer, Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-
1945 (Philadelphia: Tempe University Press, 1989).
14 Paula Parker, “Domestics’ Union Makes Gains,” Los Angeles Times, November 22, 1980, n.p.
15 Susan Himmelweit, “Caring Labor,” ANNALS, AAPSS, 561 (January 1999), 30, 36-7, 31; Deborah Stone,
“Caring by the Book,” in Care Work: Gender, Labor, and the Welfare State, ed. Madonna Harrington
Meyer (New York: Routledge, 2003),89-111; Jane Aronson and Sheila M. Neysmith, “‘You’re Not Just in
There to Do The Work’: Depersonalizing Policies and the Exploitation of Home Care Workers’ Labor,”
Gender & Society 10 (February 1996), 59-77.
16 Dawson and Surpin, “Direct-Care Health Workers,” 8.
17 Caring for America, chapter 5.
18 We discuss the medical model of home care more in chapter 2, Caring for America. Here we can only
focus on the social welfare location.
19 Marta Fraenkel, Housekeeping Service for Chronic Patients (New York: 1942), 68; Maud Morlock,
Homemaker Services: History and Bibliography (Washington: 1964), 4.
20 Morlock, Homemaker Services, 4.
21 Morlock, Homemaker Services, 4; Phyllis Palmer, Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic
Servants in the United States, 1920-1945 (Philadelphia: 1989), 102.
22 Sandra Opdycke, No One Was Turned Away: The Role of Public Hospitals in New York City Since 1900
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 14, 71-77; Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, No Place Like Home: A
History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2001), 112; “Mayor
Urges Gifts to Nursing Service,” NYT, October 10, 1934, 25; “Nurse Fund Drive To Begin At Once,” New
York Times, October 26, 1934, 18, noted: “the load of caring for sickness in the home, which has been left
almost entirely to private philanthropy, has steadily increased as the ability of patients to pay for home