Centre for Work and Learning, Research and Innovation Division, Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore, Singapore.
Home Health Care Serv Q. 2020 Apr-Jun;39(2):107-125. doi: 10.1080/01621424.2020.1740130. Epub 2020 Mar 17.
Eldercare is often regarded as "dirty work" due to its association with dysfunctional, decaying, and diseased bodies. This paper focuses on eldercare work, and studies how current practices and organization of eldercare have been justified and legitimized in different and sometimes conflicting ways. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with workers in nursing homes for the elderly and homecare service, this paper examines eldercare work through the theoretical lens of "orders of worth." The concept of orders of worth affords a moral political analysis of eldercare work that helps to explain those dilemmas and situations which eldercare workers encounter and negotiate. Through the analysis, the moral entanglements between individual practices, institutional logics, and the political economy of care labor are systematically revealed.
老年护理工作通常被视为“肮脏的工作”，因为它与功能失调、衰败和患病的身体有关。本文聚焦于老年护理工作，研究了当前的老年护理实践和组织是如何以不同的、有时甚至相互冲突的方式得到证明和合法化的。本文通过对养老院和家庭护理服务工作人员的民族志实地调查，通过“价值秩序”的理论视角来考察老年护理工作。“价值秩序”的概念为老年护理工作提供了一种道德政治分析，有助于解释老年护理工作者所遇到和协商的困境和情况。通过分析，系统地揭示了个体实践、制度逻辑和护理劳动政治经济学之间的道德纠葛。
