Browsing University of Waterloo by Subject "Work"

Now showing items 1-3 of 3

A critical examination of how Ontario’s home care system policy affects PSW-provided home care and client risk

Hopwood, Pamela (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-07)

The demand for home care is increasing as aging populations grow in Canada and internationally. Personal Support Workers (PSWs) provide the majority of the direct home care in Ontario, yet there are longstanding and acute ...
Employee's Perceptions of Work-Life Balance

Simard, Madeleine (University of Waterloo, 2012-01-25)

There has been an increased focus on balancing multiple life roles and managing the boundary between work and family. To minimize employees’ work life balance issues, organizations have turned to policies such as flextime, ...
Feeling Precarious: Millennial Women and Work

Worth, Nancy (Sage, 2015-12-18)

In Precarious Life (2004), Judith Butler writes about how a shared sense of fear and vulnerability opens the possibility of recognizing interdependency. This is a wider understanding of precarity than is often present in ...