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THE HOME AS WORKSHOP:

Women as Amateur Nurses and Medical Care Providers

Portland State University

The high-tech health service work done by amateur family caregivers in U.S. homes challenges the conventional division of the social world into public and private. Under new federal reimbursement systems, the diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), patients are being discharged sicker than before from hospitals and nursing homes, or after treatments in outpatient clinics. Health care facilities depend on a work transfer, shifting their earlier responsibilities for the sick to the family. There, women family members do for free the work once done by paid health service workers in health care facilities, caring for family members who need their nursing and housekeeping services. Women's unpaid work knits together "public" and "private," demonstrating how capitalism reorganizes the labor process to make use of free service labor.

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