Taking Worker Productivity to a New Level? Electronic Monitoring in Homecare—The (Re)Production of Unpaid Labour
Taking Worker Productivity to a New Level? Electronic Monitoring in Homecare—The (Re)Production of Unpaid Labour
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将家庭护理中的工人生产力提升到新水平？无偿劳动的（再）生产
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2017
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Ljb Hayes
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S. Moore;Ljb Hayes
该杂志的编辑概述了数字技术重构工作时间维度的能力，并呼吁进一步进行重点实证研究（Howcroft和Taylor，2014）。本文探讨了家庭护理工作的电子监控（EM）在英国公共部门提供社会关怀的严重财政压力的背景下对工作时间的影响。家庭护理工作者绝大多数是妇女，她们在自己家中为老年人和残疾人提供个人护理（称为“服务使用者”或“客户”）。绝大多数人受雇于私营部门组织，提供地方当局在成本竞争基础上委托的护理（Bessa，2013年; Rubery等人，2015）。有人建议，EM与零时合同（ZHC）相结合，有助于重新配置有偿和无偿工作时间，因为它们能够通过“仅与客户联系付款”（仅为护理人员在服务用户家中的时间支付服务提供者）消除可能被视为“非生产性”的工作时间。
The editors of this journal have outlined the capacity of digital technology to restructure the temporal dimensions of work and called for further focused empirical study (Howcroft and Taylor, 2014). This article explores the impact of the Electronic Monitoring (EM) of homecare work on working time in the context of severe financial pressures on public sector provision of social care in the UK. Homecare workers are overwhelmingly women and provide personal care to older and disabled people in their own homes (referred to as ‘service-users’ or ‘clients’). The vast majority are employed by private sector organisations delivering care that has been commissioned on a cost competitive basis by local authorities (Bessa, 2013; Rubery et al., 2015). It is proposed that EM in combination with Zero Hours Contracts (ZHCs) contribute to the reconfiguration of paid and unpaid working time because they enable the removal of what might be deemed ‘unproductive’ working time through ‘client contact only payments’ (where providers are paid only for the time that care workers are in the service-user’s home).