Departing from the statement of the Swedish member of the European Parliament Eva-Britt Svensson that the EU could threat the Swedish development in gender politics this essay aims to investigate if this is possible and probable. In order to acquire a view of the actual differences between European and Swedish gender politics in the domain of family- and employment policies and how they affect one another I have conducted interviews with Swedish members of the European Parliament, civil servants and a lobbyist. By subjecting the answers to critical feminist theory the essay tries to explain the difference in the view of women and gender between the EU and Sweden and what it implicates. It seems that the basic ambition of equality between women and men is to be found at both the European level and at Swedish level. But the view of the family and the role of the women as responsible for care work differ. Swedish gender politics don’t seem to have been affected in any negative way by EU rulings so far. The risk of Sweden to compare itself with other European countries could, however, lead to stagnation in the struggle for equality between women and men as an effect of Sweden considering itself to be far ahead.

<p>Departing from the statement of the Swedish member of the European Parliament Eva-Britt Svensson that the EU could threat the Swedish development in gender politics this essay aims to investigate if this is possible and probable. In order to acquire a view of the actual differences between European and Swedish gender politics in the domain of family- and employment policies and how they affect one another I have conducted interviews with Swedish members of the European Parliament, civil servants and a lobbyist. By subjecting the answers to critical feminist theory the essay tries to explain the difference in the view of women and gender between the EU and Sweden and what it implicates.</p><p>It seems that the basic ambition of equality between women and men is to be found at both the European level and at Swedish level. But the view of the family and the role of the women as responsible for care work differ. Swedish gender politics don’t seem to have been affected in any negative way by EU rulings so far. The risk of Sweden to compare itself with other European countries could, however, lead to stagnation in the struggle for equality between women and men as an effect of Sweden considering itself to be far ahead.</p>

As contemporary health care organizations struggle to control costs, yet deliver quality patient-centred care, the concept of care becomes socially transformed through the use of quality improvement models (i.e., Lean methodology) and quality assurance documentation. This research investigates how nurses’ care work is socially organized in a system that defines care through quality management practices. I use Dorothy E. Smith’s Institutional Ethnography as a feminist mode of inquiry and as a guiding framework for my interviews with nurse participants as I explore the complex social relations within the health care system from the vantage point of nurses undertaking care work. I argue that the social reorganization of care work has affected the emotional lives of nurses as they try to balance actual patient-centred care with their reporting obligations under quality management.

What do art workers, nuns and care workers have in common? How can these commonalities be conceptualised from the perspective of feminist Marxism? How would such conceptualisation open up intersectional and transversal perspectives for social movements struggling against precariousness? Departing from an auto-ethnographic account on activist experiences originating from the art workers’ movement in Tallinn, this thesis aims to theorise the intersection of precarious labour and gender. By using the thinking technology of diffractive reading, it places the debates around unwaged labour within art and care sector into the context of autonomist Marxist thinking. Furthermore, affinities and entanglements between feminist politics and the struggles of precarious workers are configured and imagined, in order to interlink and converge spatially and temporally isolated resistive practices that are constructed from the experience of unwaged and precarious workers.

As contemporary health care organizations struggle to control costs, yet deliver quality patient-centred care, the concept of care becomes socially transformed through the use of quality improvement models (i.e., Lean methodology) and quality assurance documentation. This research investigates how nurses’ care work is socially organized in a system that defines care through quality management practices. I use Dorothy E. Smith’s Institutional Ethnography as a feminist mode of inquiry and as a guiding framework for my interviews with nurse participants as I explore the complex social relations within the health care system from the vantage point of nurses undertaking care work. I argue that the social reorganization of care work has affected the emotional lives of nurses as they try to balance actual patient-centred care with their reporting obligations under quality management.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseAFG.pdf: 1775320 bytes, checksum: b10f1539b1ba82540cdf33b950040c17 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Researching the work of the caregiver of elderly people in the Institution for the Long Stay of the Elderly (ILPI) is therefore a social phenomenon that must be clarified, since it depends on the individual condition of those who perform it. The scientific study of care work becomes increasingly relevant to improve the working conditions afforded by technological and scientific advances. It is noted that several countries are experiencing different aging populations in different ways. Some countries in Europe and Japan have gradually been aging, Brazil is among the countries that ages abruptly. Considering the specificities of the formal care work, emerging from this scenario, especially the long-term care in the context of ILPIs, this study had as objective to investigate the social representations about the work of care elaborated by formal caregivers of elderly people in a Institution of Long Stay for the Elderly (ILPI). This is a case study of a social and qualitative nature. Participants in the study were a group of 9 workers from an ILPI, who work in the care of institutionalized persons of both sexes, located in a municipality in the interior of the State of São Paulo. The data were analyzed starting from the assumptions of the Consensual Universes and Reified Universes and the concepts of Objectivation and Anchoring, as stated in the theory of social representations. Through the systematization of the narratives of the participants, discursive marks and thematic categories delimited, characterizing two distinct and complementary perspectives of social representations. Care work for participants reveals representations of "learning," "love," "art," "caring." Care work also represents "dimensions beyond techniques." Considering the nature and dynamics of a philanthropic, closed and "long-stay" institution, representations emerge of work marked by precarious conditions, lack of capacity to deal with the emotions of the elderly, and also of their own emotions, expressing a "Heavy work" that requires physical effort and recognition. It is verified that the knowledge about the care work is still limited, and it is necessary to develop internal actions of the institution, as well as the public policies of long-term follow-up of the working conditions of care. / Pesquisar o trabalho do cuidador de pessoas idosas em Instituição de Longa Permanência de Pessoas Idosas (ILPI) é, pois, um fenômeno social que deve ser esclarecido, pois, ele depende da condição individual dos que o executam. O estudo científico do trabalho de cuidado se torna cada vez mais relevante para melhorar as condições de trabalho propiciadas por avanços tecnológicos e científicos. Nota-se que diversos países estão atravessando, de formas diferentes o envelhecimento populacional. Alguns países na Europa e o Japão foram envelhecendo aos poucos, o Brasil está entre os países que envelhece bruscamente. Considerando-se a especificidades do trabalho de cuidado formal, emergentes deste cenário, em especial aos cuidados de longa duração no contexto das ILPIs, este estudo teve como objetivo investigar as representações sociais sobre o trabalho de cuidado elaborado por cuidadores formais de pessoas idosas em uma Instituição de Longa Permanência para Idosos (ILPI). Trata-se de um estudo de caso, de natureza social e qualitativa. Participaram do estudo um grupo de 9 trabalhadores de uma ILPI, atuantes no cuidado de pessoas institucionalizadas, de ambos os sexos, que está localizada em um município do interior do Estado de São Paulo. Os dados foram analisados partindo-se dos pressupostos dos Universos Consensuais e Universos Reificados e dos conceitos de Objetivação e Ancoragem, enunciados na teoria das representações sociais. Mediante a sistematização das narrativas dos participantes, marcas discursivas e categorias temáticas delimitadas, caracterizando duas perspectivas distintas e complementares das representações sociais. O trabalho de cuidado para os participantes revela representações de “aprendizado”, “amor”, “arte”, “carinho”. O trabalho de cuidado representa também “dimensões para além das técnicas”. Considerando a natureza e a dinâmica de uma instituição – filantrópica, fechada e de “longa permanência” emergem representações de um trabalho marcado por condições precárias, falta de capacitação em como lidar com as emoções das pessoas idosas e também das suas próprias emoções, expressando um “trabalho pesado” que requer um esforço físico e reconhecimento. Constata-se que o conhecimento sobre o trabalho de cuidado ainda é limitado, e é necessário o desenvolvimento de ações internas da instituição, bem como a de políticas públicas de acompanhamento a longo prazo, das condições de trabalho de cuidado.

Orientador: Sueli Terezinha Ferreira Martins / Banca: Elen Rose Lodeiro Castanheira / Banca: Maria Dionísia de Amaral Dias / Banca: Flávia Gonçalves da Silva / Banca: Marina Peduzzi / Resumo: Práticas grupais são usualmente desenvolvidas por trabalhadores envolvidos na implantação de ações e serviços de saúde pública. Porém, frequentemente, tais práticas são realizadas com base em referenciais teórico-metodológicos que promovem análises mais restritas à instância imediata das relações intragrupais. As ações e serviços de atenção primária à saúde (APS) têm dentre suas diretrizes organizativas o trabalho em equipe, no qual se expressam processos grupais. Foram investigadas as manifestações da dialética cooperação-trabalho coletivo no processo de trabalho das equipes de APS, recorrendo ao processo grupal como unidade de análise. Foi sistematizada uma proposta histórico-dialética de análise concreta dos processos grupais, particularizada, posteriormente, para o caso do trabalho em equipe na APS. Inicialmente, examinaram-se as mediações constitutivas da formação do ser humano enquanto ser social. Foi apresentada a formulação da dialética cooperação-trabalho coletivo: o primeiro pólo (cooperação) se remete aos fundamentos histórico-ontológicos do trabalho na constituição do ser social do ser humano e o segundo (trabalho coletivo) trata das diversas formas históricas com que se vale da cooperação, constitutiva da sociabilidade do ser humano, na divisão técnica e social do trabalho. A seguir, investigou-se acerca da viabilidade teórica de que, como mediadores da existência social do ser humano, os processos grupais consistam na unidade de análise da dialética cooperaçãotrabalho coletivo. Posteriormente, particularizou-se essa formulação para o processo de trabalho em saúde com base no referencial teórico-metodológico marxiano. Observou-se que o trabalho em equipe de saúde se apresenta de forma contundente nas propostas de APS... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract:Group practices are usually performed by agents involved in public health actions and services deployment. However, these practices are frequently based on theoretical and methodological approaches that promote analysis restricted to the immediate dimensions of intragroup relations. The organization of public primary health care (PHC) actions and services include teamwork as an organizational directive, and group processes are part of it. The expressions of the cooperation-collective work dialectic in the work process of PHC teams were investigated, employing the group process as an analysis unit. A historicaldialectical proposition of a concrete analysis of group processes was systematized and, subsequently, particularized to the case of PHC teamwork. First, constitutive mediations regarding the formation of human being as a social being were examined. The cooperation-collective work dialectic formulation was presented: the first pole (cooperation) is related to the historical-ontological foundations of work in the constitution of the social being of human being and the second pole (collective work) is related to the diverse historical forms that cooperation, as a part of human being's sociability, is used as means to the technical and social division of labour. After that, it was investigated the theoretical viability that group processes, as mediations of human being's social existence, consist on the analysis unit of cooperation-collective work dialetic. Thereafter, this formulation was particularized to the health care work process grounded on marxian theoretical-methodological referential. It was observed that health care teamwork shows up substantially in PHC and health care model changing proposals developed in Brazilian Unified Health System. This presence is regardless... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

Previous research reveals the existence of social distance between the social policies that govern care work and human services that make up child welfare systems and their front-line implementation by direct service workers. The authors suggest that the nature of child welfare and human services requires discretion and flexibility that is not built into governing social policies. Our study uses qualitative ethnographic methods including participant observation, informal interviewing, and content analysis to determine the extent to which front-line barriers persist to implementing child welfare and related types of human services social policies and legal mandates. A comparison of different human services settings is presented along with a social policy analysis. A discussion of implications for front-line care work and ongoing research goals will be included.

付記する学位プログラム名: グローバル生存学大学院連携プログラム / 京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(地域研究) / 甲第22561号 / 地博第264号 / 新制||地||100(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科東南アジア地域研究専攻 / (主査)教授 速水 洋子, 准教授 中村 沙絵, 教授 Hau Caroline Sy, 准教授 安里 和晃 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Area Studies / Kyoto University / DFAM