Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1986.

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1986. / Also available in print.

Supervised Homemaker Service in the Family Welfare Bureau of Greater Vancouver provides "homemakers" to families that are without mothers, either temporarily or permanently, for the purpose of maintaining the home and caring for the children. The Bureau has developed over a period of twelve years a group of experienced and well-trained women to do this work. The Service alleviates what might otherwise be a traumatic experience for a growing child, by keeping him in the familiar surroundings of his home; and it relieves the anxiety of the parents. As a result, in case of illness of the mother, either at home or in hospital, her recovery is not retarded by worry about her family. The Service builds upon the existing strengths within the family toward planning for their future well-being, and to this end it is co-ordinated with casework service to assist in the solution of family problems. The material for the study was secured from many sources within the Family Welfare Bureau, which included minutes of the Homemakers' Committee; Director's Reports since 1938; minutes of other committees and meetings having a bearing on the homemaker service; minutes of homemakers’ meetings; personal discussions with members of the professional staff; records of homemaker cases and applications for service. Two questionnaires were used; one for the caseworkers supervising homes which had homemaker service; the other to secure the views of homemakers themselves. The balance of the material was obtained from articles on the subject and correspondence with and visits to agencies in other cities having a similar service. The study traces the development of the Service in Vancouver from its beginning in 1937; the methods by which it has been supervised; and the changing direction of policy, from the provision of an emergency housekeeper to coordination with casework. Types of service, and special problems are illustrated by sample cases. A tentative evaluation is made of the homemakers as a group, and of their growing appreciation of their contribution to team-work within a family agency. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate

Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1986.

A homemaker is an individual who is employed by a homemaking agency for the purpose of providing in-home service to specific clients. These client services involve housekeeping and/or personal care assistance. Until now little research has been done in the area of homemaking as an occupation. Therefore, this study is intended to provide research background for present and future work concerning the homemakers in the areas of their role change, theory, and practice. Using the data base obtained from supervisor case notes of homemaker clients in the years 1976 and 1980, this study attempted to look at the role changes that occurred and the discrepancy that existed between the practice of homemakers in an agency and the practice its homemakers were taught within the classroom. The sample data was derived from one hundred client files each from 1976 and from 1980. The individual files were randomly selected from the files of a large metropolitan homemaker agency within the province of British Columbia. The corresponding curriculum that was used in this study is the Homemaker Program of the Vancouver Community College, Vancouver, B.C., as taught in 1980. Methodology for this research included statistical analyses of the client file data and use of the Provus Discrepancy Evaluation Model, in which the actual practice of the homemaker and the formal curriculum of homemaker training were compared. Findings of the research are that the client of 1980 appeared to be older, was representative of a numerically smaller household, and depended on others for referral to the homemaker agency. Cross-tabulations of the years (1976 and 1980) with a variety of health and demographic indicators display statistically significant increase in 1980 of clients who had psychological and medical-surgical problems. However, child-care related problems for these clients decreased significantly in 1980. The category of homemaker practice, meaning the duties that the homemaker was indicated as having been required to perform in the client's home, also showed areas of significant statistical change. Cross-tabulations of these years indicate that personal care and housekeeping practice had increased significantly by 1980. Homemaker practice related to assistance with child care in the home decreased in 1980. A discrepancy analysis between the practice of the homemaker in the client's home and their corresponding curriculum of the homemaker training program indicated congruency for eight of the eleven practice categories. The areas of discrepancy were: 1) replace Home Care nurse (temporarily); 2) assist with the administration of medications; and 3) monitor state of health. The homemaker organization is a service oriented group in which rapid role changes are occurring, accompanied by the evidence of some apparent discrepancies between curricular theory and. actual practice. / Education, Faculty of / Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of / Graduate

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Cette thèse de doctorat interroge la polysémie des modalités de professionnalisation du fait professionnel contemporain. Elle s’inscrit au croisement de la sociologie du travail et des groupes professionnels se centrant sur les aides familiales comme clef d’entrée d’une analyse de l’évolution de l’autonomie professionnelle. Les modalités de professionnalisation au sens large restant l’objet substantif. Nous abordons la professionnalisation comme un folk concept afin de saisir les enjeux centraux au cœur de ces processus, que sont la division du travail et l’adéquation formation-emploi. Ce faisant, nous traduisons la professionnalisation comme un processus temporel mais aussi social. Ce mouvement dialectique s’initie de façon endogène par un groupe de travailleurs et est négocié de façon exogène par des acteurs extérieurs entrant en relation avec ces travailleurs. En ce sens, nous considérons que la professionnalisation est un prisme pour examiner les rapports sociaux de travail qui cristallisent le fait professionnel contemporain.<p><p>Nous avons choisi de centrer notre analyse sur un groupe professionnel méconnu, en recherche de reconnaissance et dont les incertitudes sur le travail pèsent à cause des redéfinitions émises par les politiques d’emplois le concernant suite aux changements démographiques et sociétaux affectant l’ensemble de la société. Notre hypothèse centrale est que la professionnalisation désignent des phénomènes problématiques ;qu’elle ne vise pas exclusivement à autonomiser un groupe de travailleurs sur le marché du travail afin qu’ils obtiennent un statut. Elle peut également servir à valoriser une activité afin de légitimer et développer la reconnaissance des organisations prestataires du dit travail.<p><p>Pour ce faire, nous sommes partis d’un cadre analytique original et novateur croisant les différentes modalités mentionnées dans la littérature pour en faire une typologie permettant de saisir l’hétérogénéité des phénomènes que recouvre la professionnalisation. Nous avons commencé par retracer les conditions socio-historiques de constitution du groupe à travers une recherche documentaire agrémentée par un travail ethnographique et d’observations participantes. Afin de tester nos hypothèses, nous avons opté pour des méthodologies mixtes. 412 questionnaires furent ainsi récoltés auprès des fédérations employeuses du secteur pour cerner les identités professionnelles revendiquées et convoquées. De même, une trentaine d’entretiens semi-dirigés ont été réalisé pour approfondir l’analyse en termes de trajectoires biographiques et d’évolutions des pratiques.<p><p>Nos principaux résultats se traduisent par une innovation théorique, proposant de replacer des formes d’analyses structurannionistes au sein de la sociologie des groupes professionnelles. Ce faisant, nous constatons que le processus de professionnalisation des aides familiales a suivi une catégorisation d’intervention publique où professionnaliser était synonyme de création d’emploi pour in fine devenir un instrument idéologique, qui est repris progressivement sous une catégorisation gestionnaire détachant l’individu, pris comme travailleur professionnel, de la fonction qu’il exerce.<p> / Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

A program evaluation of the Homemaker Service of Lane County, through use of the Homemaker Opinion Survey and the Former Clientele Satisfaction Survey was implemented because of the interest expressed by the program director to evaluate the program. The master report of the evaluation was submitted to the Homemaker Service of Lane County under the title "Report of the Homemaker and Former Clientele Evaluation of the Homemaker Service of Lane County, 1979." Chapter IV (Findings) of this report, "Homemaker and Former Clientele Evaluation of the Homemaker Service of Lane County," is a condensed version of that found in the master report. The reader is referred to the master for more detailed descriptive tables found in that report.