RT Article
T1 “It's Like Being a Parent at Work”: Antiviolence Frontline Work, Boundaries, and Intimacy During COVID-19
JF Violence against women
VO 30
IS 1
SP 149
OP 173
A1 Schwarz, Corinne
A2 Welch, Leigh
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1871896657
AB COVID-19 profoundly shaped how service providers in the antiviolence sector interact with clients, coworkers, and community stakeholders. In addition to stressors inherent in antiviolence work, service providers negotiated new, challenging social distancing and remote communication strategies. In this paper, we analyze interviews with 23 antiviolence workers in the US Great Plains region, focusing on participants’ descriptions of workplace boundaries and intimacy. We demonstrate how COVID-19 both expanded and contracted public/private boundaries and formal/informal connections in antiviolence workers’ daily experiences. Pandemic conditions revealed the pressing need for frontline workers to exercise discretion over levels of intimate engagement with coworkers and clients.
K1 remote work
K1 antiviolence services
K1 work/life balance
K1 Covid-19
K1 frontline work
DO 10.1177/10778012231207036