RT Article
T1 Criminalizing the Care Work Zone? The Gendered Dynamics of Using Legal and Administrative Strategies to Confront Workplace Violence
JF Social justice
VO 32
IS 2
SP 132
OP 150
A1 Baines, Donna 1960-
LA English
YR 2005
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747157872
AB Part of a special issue on the many faces of violence. The writer asserts that, in light of the restructured gendered, caring, and paternalistic context in which violence occurs, legal and administrative solutions are not likely to yield more than minor success in preventing workplace violence in the care work zone. She analyzes four key administrative and criminal law remedies—the right to refuse dangerous work, the duty to warn, assault charges, and criminalizing employer neglect—and considers their prospects for addressing violence within the specific, gendered context of care work and with a workforce that is poorly protected from management retaliation and from their own concerns for marginal and vulnerable clients.
K1 Justice administration
K1 Women employees
K1 Nursing care facilities
K1 Caregivers
K1 Work Environment
K1 Social Services
K1 Violence in the workplace