Women, home care and social change in a rural Newfoundland community
This thesis is an examination of women and social change in a rural Newfoundland fishing community. Social change is documented and is investigated through the shift in women's employment from the fishery to home care. This thesis argues that the groundfish moratorium, coupled with shifts in go...
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ftmemorialuniv:oai:research.library.mun.ca:10780 2023-10-01T03:57:30+02:00 Women, home care and social change in a rural Newfoundland community Kelly, Melodie 2005 application/pdf https://research.library.mun.ca/10780/ https://research.library.mun.ca/10780/1/Kelly_Melodie.pdf en eng Memorial University of Newfoundland https://research.library.mun.ca/10780/1/Kelly_Melodie.pdf Kelly, Melodie <https://research.library.mun.ca/view/creator_az/Kelly=3AMelodie=3A=3A.html> (2005) Women, home care and social change in a rural Newfoundland community. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland. thesis_license Thesis NonPeerReviewed 2005 ftmemorialuniv 2023-09-03T06:48:01Z This thesis is an examination of women and social change in a rural Newfoundland fishing community. Social change is documented and is investigated through the shift in women's employment from the fishery to home care. This thesis argues that the groundfish moratorium, coupled with shifts in governmental health care policy, has radically reconfigured the nature of women's social space in rural Newfoundland society and created a complex medical and social scenario. The move to home care, as an economic and health issue, is one which provides some social advantages to workers and clients but also one that remains financially exploitative and medically suspect. Thesis Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Research Repository |
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This thesis is an examination of women and social change in a rural Newfoundland fishing community. Social change is documented and is investigated through the shift in women's employment from the fishery to home care. This thesis argues that the groundfish moratorium, coupled with shifts in governmental health care policy, has radically reconfigured the nature of women's social space in rural Newfoundland society and created a complex medical and social scenario. The move to home care, as an economic and health issue, is one which provides some social advantages to workers and clients but also one that remains financially exploitative and medically suspect. |
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https://research.library.mun.ca/10780/1/Kelly_Melodie.pdf Kelly, Melodie <https://research.library.mun.ca/view/creator_az/Kelly=3AMelodie=3A=3A.html> (2005) Women, home care and social change in a rural Newfoundland community. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland. |
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