The Labour of Care
Canada's Health Care Workers, 1945-2020
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2026
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-6427-8 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-6427-8 (ISBN)
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This book examines how provinces, employers, and education programs across Canada have responded to health care worker shortages since 1950, tracing the creation of new occupations, the gendered nature of the workforce, and the struggles of unions amid major social and economic change.
The Labour of Care is the first national, comparative history of health care work. In this book, historian Peter L. Twohig analyses the responses of governments, employers, professional groups, training programs , and unions to the challenge of staffing Canada’s health care system and the reorganization of care.
Through careful archival analysis, Twohig demonstrates the conditions under which employees’ boundaries become more flexible, the paths to health care work expand, and tensions emerge among workers in response to labour shortages, decreased funding, and health care reform. This book is attentive to the various identities of health care workers, as women, professionals, union members, and more. It also situates these developments within broader social, economic, and policy changes that reshaped Canada’s health care landscape in the second half of the twentieth century. Examining health care workers in this way reveals a new history of health care that highlights the experiences and contributions of a wide range of workers whose voices have not yet been heard.
The Labour of Care is the first national, comparative history of health care work. In this book, historian Peter L. Twohig analyses the responses of governments, employers, professional groups, training programs , and unions to the challenge of staffing Canada’s health care system and the reorganization of care.
Through careful archival analysis, Twohig demonstrates the conditions under which employees’ boundaries become more flexible, the paths to health care work expand, and tensions emerge among workers in response to labour shortages, decreased funding, and health care reform. This book is attentive to the various identities of health care workers, as women, professionals, union members, and more. It also situates these developments within broader social, economic, and policy changes that reshaped Canada’s health care landscape in the second half of the twentieth century. Examining health care workers in this way reveals a new history of health care that highlights the experiences and contributions of a wide range of workers whose voices have not yet been heard.
Peter L. Twohig is a professor at Saint Mary’s University in the Department of History and Atlantic Canada Studies.
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Staffing Saskatchewan’s Hospitals, 1945-1960
2. Occupational Therapy Assistants and Mental Health Services in Ontario
3. Nursing Assistants and the Renegotiation of Nursing Labour
4. ‘Willing hands and kind hearts’: Sites of Care
5. Health Care Workers and Unions
6. ‘You get bitter’: Strikes in Long Term Care
7. Education, Training, and Occupational Therapy in Ontario, 1970 to 1985
8. ‘Sister Professions’: Nursing Assistants in New Brunswick
9. ‘Too Young to Retire and Too Poor to Quit’: Labour Troubles, 1980-2000
Conclusion
Bibliography
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.7.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History |
| Zusatzinfo | 34 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 3302 x 5461 mm |
| Gewicht | 1 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-6427-9 / 1487564279 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-6427-8 / 9781487564278 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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