Labors of Love : Nursing Homes and the Structures of Care Work.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Locating Nursing Home Care Work -- 1 Making the Most of Medicaid -- 2 Staging the Inspections -- 3 Documenting Conflict -- 4 The Costs of Doing Business -- 5 Feeding Residents on a Starving Budget -- 6 The Uses of Emotions -- 7 Making Sense of Death and Abuse at Work -- 8 Connecting Quality of Life and Quality of Work -- Appendix: From the Poorhouse to the Skilled Nursing Facility -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- About the Author.

"Labors of Love is without parallel in the nursing home literature. No other ethnographer has written in such a finely detailed way about the worlds of nursing home managers. In this book, Jason Rodriquez spells out in riveting detail how nursing home managers respond to a system that incentivizes dependence and incapacity rather than independence and restorative care, how they must "put on a show" for state inspectors that does not and cannot reflect the reality of normal day-to-day operations, and how the current regulatory framework actively discourages authentic emotional relationships between caregivers and recipients. Labors of Love will change the terms of the national debate about nursing homes."-Steven Lopez,author of Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement.

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