JSM 2004 - Toronto

Abstract #300060

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Activity Number: 31
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Sunday, August 8, 2004 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor: Cmte on Women in Statistics
Abstract - #300060
Title: Using Time and Space for Managing Care: Nurses' Experiences from Canada and the United States
Author(s): Pat Armstrong*+
Companies: York University
Address: Vari Hall, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
Keywords: health care reform ; nursing ; time and space management
Abstract:

Major health care reforms are under way in Canada and the United States. In both countries, the reforms are presented as ways of improving care while reducing costs. The emphasis in reforms on both sides of the border has been on managing the labor of the mainly women who provide care and on managing access for those seeking care, the majority of whom are also women. Drawing on interviews with nurses in British Columbia and California, Ontario and New York State, this presentation explores the ways time and space are used to manage the largest occupational category in health care and to manage access to care. The strategies are often visible and based on old means of controlling the workforce as well as on assumptions about women's work. But other, often less visible, strategies are also emerging, reflecting relations in the new economy of care. Whatever the strategies, assumptions about gender and gendered practices play a central role.

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