Cynthia J. Cranford
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781501749254
- eISBN:
- 9781501749285
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501749254.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
This chapter examines the Direct Funding Program of Ontario's Self-Managed Attendant Services. The evident willingness of self-managers and personal attendants to engage in relational work and the ...
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This chapter examines the Direct Funding Program of Ontario's Self-Managed Attendant Services. The evident willingness of self-managers and personal attendants to engage in relational work and the still unmet labor market security of workers were both necessary for self-managers to realize the Direct Funding Program's promise of flexibility. However, within a context of insufficient funding and little to no collective backing, this program produced labor market insecurity for workers, in the form of insufficient hours, earnings, and protection. Moreover, the position of workers in the broader racialized and gendered labor market shaped their labor market choices, or lack thereof, and shaped their experience at the intimate level. Failing to address broader racialized and gendered labor market insecurity not only has implications for workers who are less able to negotiate what they do and how. It also limits the progressive potential to value all forms of intimate labor and to rethink skill.Less
This chapter examines the Direct Funding Program of Ontario's Self-Managed Attendant Services. The evident willingness of self-managers and personal attendants to engage in relational work and the still unmet labor market security of workers were both necessary for self-managers to realize the Direct Funding Program's promise of flexibility. However, within a context of insufficient funding and little to no collective backing, this program produced labor market insecurity for workers, in the form of insufficient hours, earnings, and protection. Moreover, the position of workers in the broader racialized and gendered labor market shaped their labor market choices, or lack thereof, and shaped their experience at the intimate level. Failing to address broader racialized and gendered labor market insecurity not only has implications for workers who are less able to negotiate what they do and how. It also limits the progressive potential to value all forms of intimate labor and to rethink skill.
Teresa Shewry
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816691579
- eISBN:
- 9781452952390
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816691579.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter examines how writers from Hawai‘i associate hope with water. In Hawai‘i from the late nineteenth century onward, the agricultural industry diverted water from rivers and other sources to ...
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This chapter examines how writers from Hawai‘i associate hope with water. In Hawai‘i from the late nineteenth century onward, the agricultural industry diverted water from rivers and other sources to sugar plantations in particular. The recent collapse of the sugar industry fueled struggles for the restoration of water. Gary Pak’s short stories represent the return of water to places and peoples from which it was taken for sugar plantations, anticipating a promising, open future through engagement with the migratory spaces and temporal uncertainties of water. Poet Cathy Song provides a different perspective, writing about people who live and work on the plantations to which water was diverted. In exploring the gendered and racialized labor arrangements woven together with water in these sites and beyond, she recognizes alternative social practices and potentials in the everyday, mundane, and yet creative interactions between migrant workers and water.Less
This chapter examines how writers from Hawai‘i associate hope with water. In Hawai‘i from the late nineteenth century onward, the agricultural industry diverted water from rivers and other sources to sugar plantations in particular. The recent collapse of the sugar industry fueled struggles for the restoration of water. Gary Pak’s short stories represent the return of water to places and peoples from which it was taken for sugar plantations, anticipating a promising, open future through engagement with the migratory spaces and temporal uncertainties of water. Poet Cathy Song provides a different perspective, writing about people who live and work on the plantations to which water was diverted. In exploring the gendered and racialized labor arrangements woven together with water in these sites and beyond, she recognizes alternative social practices and potentials in the everyday, mundane, and yet creative interactions between migrant workers and water.
