Armstrong, Pat

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Women are estimated to comprise nearly 80 per cent of both paid and unpaid care workers, yet their numbers do not coincide with their influence. Caring For/Caring About explores the complex nature of caring in Canadian society today. It examines the current research on women, home care, and unpaid caregiving, and …

Who counts as a health care worker? The question of where we draw the line between health care workers and non-health care workers is not merely a matter of academic nicety or a debate without consequences for care. It is a central issue for policy development because the definition often results in a division among workers in ways that undermine c …

This book exposes the many faces of health care privatization and its impact on women. It begins with the international context for health care reform and then moves from coast to coast, setting out what is known about the reforms that are underway and about their impact on women. The complexity of the task is obvious; home care, for example, means …

Feminist struggles have targeted corporate capital, male-dominated social structures, and patriarchal ideas and culture. The contest with the state, however, has provided the most substantial focus. The public sector is an employer of great numbers of women; women are the largest consumers of state services; the state regulates both the capitalist …

The state of the economy, unemployment, and the economic crisis concerns us all. How critical is the present situation and what are the indicators for the future? Will a steadily increasing technology be beneficial or harmful? And what are the prospects for women, both in the paid labour force and in the home?
Pat Armstrong presents a stunning anal …

Private-sector approaches are being widely adopted in health care, but there is little evidence to demonstrate either that they offer a better way to organize work, or that they are applicable to the provision of quality health care. Patients and health care workers describe their experiences in Medical Alert: New Work Organizations in Health Care, …

This collection brings together a number of significant articles from the journal Studies in Political Economy (SPE) that illustrate feminist political economy, reflect on the ways in which political economy incorporates feminism, and examine the evolution of Canadian feminist analysis over the past twenty years. Studies in Political Economy: Deve …

Take Care: Warning Signals for Canada's Health System examines the modern Canadian health care system and exposes the impact of neo-conservative and market-oriented policies, showing the effect these have on patients and caregivers, particulary women. The voices of hospital workers, relating their own daily experiences in the wards, add a poignant …

This definitive study on women is now updated for the 90s. Sociologists Pat and Hugh Armstrong "hoped that enough would change in the nature and conditions of women's work that an entirely new book would be necessary, and [they] could abandon the old framework on the division of labour by sex.But [their] hopes have not been realized and a new editi …

Pat Armstrong is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada. Unhealthy Times brings together some of the enormous amount of research being undertaken within a broadly defined political economy framework about health and health care. Th book is divided into three sections: Locating Health Care, with essays on homecare, globalization, and a compari …

Nursing Work has been transformed by political economy and women's struggle. From earliest times, the state established the power of male allopathic practitioners and since the post-war years extended their authority. This served to encourage the collective resistance of many women, who have made significant gains for themselves and for users of th …

Pat Armstrong is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada.Wasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. This seven-chapter book explores the development of the Canadian health care system and breaks the analysis down into accessible units: who provides (the institutions and the people); who pays …

While women comprise the largest segement of health workers, health consumers, and health decision-makers for their families and communities, it has often been difficult for women to make themselves heard. Women's Health focuses on women's health issues from multiple perspectives and draws upon research and practice that include both qualitative a …