TY - BOOK ID - 78071402 TI - Moral Wages : The Emotional Dilemmas of Victim Advocacy and Counseling PY - 2014 SN - 0520282728 0520958667 9780520958661 1306878357 9781306878357 9780520282704 0520282701 9780520282728 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Counseling. KW - Social work administration. KW - Social advocacy. KW - Human services. KW - Counselling KW - Helping behavior KW - Psychology, Applied KW - Clinical sociology KW - Interviewing KW - Personal coaching KW - Social case work KW - Services, Human KW - Social service KW - Management KW - Advocacy, Social KW - Social service advocacy KW - Social work advocacy KW - Administration KW - abuse. KW - career. KW - compensation. KW - criminology. KW - domestic violence shelters. KW - domestic violence. KW - emotional labor. KW - emotional reward. KW - empowerment. KW - ethnographic research. KW - human condition. KW - impossible situations. KW - labor. KW - legal work. KW - moral. KW - service providers. KW - sexual assault. KW - social problem. KW - social work. KW - sociology. KW - struggles. KW - victim advocacy. KW - victim advocates. KW - victim counselors. KW - victimhood. KW - victims. KW - violence against women. KW - vulnerable clients. KW - workplace dilemmas. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78071402 AB - Moral Wages offers the reader a vivid depiction of what it is like to work inside an agency that assists victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Based on over a year of fieldwork by a man in a setting many presume to be hostile to men, this ethnographic account is unlike most research on the topic of violence against women. Instead of focusing on the victims or perpetrators of abuse, Moral Wages focuses exclusively on the service providers in the middle. It shows how victim advocates and counselors-who don't enjoy extrinsic benefits like pay, power, and prestige-are sustained by a different kind of compensation. As long as they can overcome a number of workplace dilemmas, they earn a special type of emotional reward reserved for those who help others in need: moral wages. As their struggles mount, though, it becomes clear that their jobs often put them in impossible situations-requiring them to aid and feel for vulnerable clients, yet giving them few and feeble tools to combat a persistent social problem. ER -