TY - BOOK ID - 138940857 TI - Taking care of our own PY - 2020 SN - 150175145X 1501751468 9781501751462 9781501751479 1501751476 9781501751448 9781501751455 PB - Ithaca DB - UniCat KW - Caregivers KW - Home care services KW - Unpaid labor KW - Social conditions. KW - Social aspects. KW - caregiving, home health, carework, skilled nursing, emotional labor. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138940857 AB - Mixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursing, 'Taking Care of Our Own' introduces us to the hidden world of family caregivers. Using a multidimensional approach, Sherry N. Mong seeks to understand and analyze the types of skilled work that family caregivers do, the processes through which they learn and negotiate new skills, and the meanings that both caregivers and nurses attach to their care work. ER -