Care in a time of austerity: the electronic monitoring of homecare workers' time

Austerity places intense pressures on labour costs in paid care. In the UK, electronic monitoring technology has been introduced to record (and materially reduce) the working time and wages of homecare workers. Based on empirical findings, we show that, in a 'time of austerity', care is reductively constructed as a consumption of time. Service users are constructed as needy, greedy, time-consumers and homecare workers as resource-wasting time-takers. We point to austerity as a temporal ideology aimed at persuading populations that individual deprivation in the present moment, self-sacrifice and the suppression of personal need in the here and now is a necessary requirement to underpin a more secure national future. Accordingly, women in low-waged care work are required to eschew a rights bearing, present-tense identity and are assumed willing to suppress their entitlements to lawful wages as a sacrifice to the future. By transforming our understandings of 'care' into those of 'time consumption', and by emphasizing the virtue of present-tense deprivation, a politics of austerity appears to justify time-monitoring in care provision and the rationing of homecare workers' pay

Die Zeitsensibilität der Menschen und die Zeitregime des Alterns

Menschen sind zeitsensibel. Ihr Fühlen, Erleben, Wollen und Handeln ist zeitlich strukturiert und bestimmt. Zeitregime beeinflussen und beherrschen durch ihre imperative Apodiktizität, Homogenität, Durchsetzungskraft und Geschwindigkeit die historische, kulturelle und gesellschaftliche Ordnung des Lebens und die Erfahrungen der Menschen. Aber nicht jede Lebensphase ist gleichermaßen in die jeweilige Ordnung und Gestaltung des herrschenden Zeitregimes eingebunden, wie am Beispiel des Alters gezeigt werden kann. Der folgende Beitrag richtet einen phänomenologischen und kulturtheoretischen Blick auf die modernen und spätmodernen Zeitregime des Alters. Diese Lebensphase fordert in brisanter Weise zur Frage nach der Zeitsensibilität auf, weil sich das Zeiterleben im Alter verändert. Das Alter zeigt sich in besonderer Weise als komplementär zu den gegenwärtigen Zeitregimen, aber auch als widerständig gegen sie

Time in Feminist Phenomenology

The contributors to this international volume take up questions about a phenomenology of time that begins with and attunes to gender issues. Themes such as feminist conceptions of time, change and becoming, the body and identity, memory and modes of experience, and the relevance of time as a moral and political question shape Time in Feminist Phenomenology and allow readers to explore connections between feminist philosophy, phenomenology and time. With its insistence on the importance of gender experience to the experience of time, this volume is a welcome opening to new and critical thinking about being, knowledge, aesthetics, and ethics

Stem Cell Transplantations Between Siblings As Social Phenomena The Child's Body and Family Decision-Making

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