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Changing Course Towards Decent Work

In: Individualising Risk

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  • Fiona Macdonald

    (RMIT University)

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Social care policy and employment regulation are both significant in producing the conditions for individualised risk for social care workers. Solutions for decent work for care and support workers lie in the design and regulation of the care system; however, employment regulation also needs rejuvenation. The achievement of an equitable person-centred social care system cannot be left to the market. Nor will the market develop the skilled workforce in secure and fairly-remunerated jobs that is necessary for a sustainable social care system. Government is the key actor with power to make the changes required. Care and care workers must be properly valued within and beyond the care system. There must be opportunity for collective effort and responsibility in the care system. Employment regulation and arrangements must provide all workers in personal work relations with protections and rights in the labour market if we are to re-fashion care jobs as sustainable and secure work.

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  • Fiona Macdonald, 2021. "Changing Course Towards Decent Work," Springer Books, in: Individualising Risk, chapter 0, pages 189-204, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-33-6366-3_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-33-6366-3_9
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