Reciprocity in caring labor: Nurses' work in residential aged care in Australia
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2013
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Adams, V.
Sharp, R.
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Feminist Economics, 2013; 100(2):19-121
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Feminist economists identify reciprocity as a motivation for both paid and unpaid caring work. In general, reciprocity describes people responding to each other in similar ways, either benevolently or harmfully. The quality of care is potentially increased when care relationships are motivated by positive and generalized forms of reciprocity and decreased with negative forms of reciprocity. This study draws on nursing literature and two qualitative studies in Australian residential aged care facilities, conducted in 2002-3 and 2009, to identify a new form called "professional reciprocity." This form of reciprocity involves deliberate and skilled relational work by nurses to facilitate mutual and interdependent exchanges with care recipients that are beneficial to both care recipients and nurses. This study argues that professional reciprocity, as a skill that can be taught, is important for achieving quality care and workers' job satisfaction.
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Copyright 2013 IAFFE