The bottom line: an ethnography of for-profit elderly residential care

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The bottom line: an ethnography of for-profit elderly residential care

In the last 20 years the UK’s elderly residential care system has become progressively more privatised with an increase in the number of for-profit organisations delivering these services. This study is a participant observation of care work in one privatised elderly residential care home (‘Meadowva...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Greener, Joe
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2011
Subjects:	Care work privatization bodywork migration ethnography residential elderly care
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12395/

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