'We don't do it for the money' ... The scale and reasons of poverty-pay among frontline long-term care workers in England.

Demographic trends escalate the demands for formal long-term care ( LTC) in the majority of the developed world. The LTC workforce is characterised by its very low wages, the actual scale of which is less well known. This article investigates the scale of poverty-pay in the feminised LTC sector and...

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Published in:Health & Social Care in the Community Vol. 25; no. 6; pp. 1817 - 1827
Main Author: Hussein, Shereen
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Nov2017
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