266 research outputs found
Upgrading California’s Home Care Workforce: the impact of political Action and Unionization
No full textCandace Howes examines the recent history of one of California\u27s rapidly growing occupations: home care. As the author\u27s analysis demonstrates, home care has been extensively transformed in recent years through large-scale unionization and coalition-based political action, which have led to major improvements in wages and benefits. Apart from providing many home care workers with better pay, the upgrading of this occupation has also improved the quality of care that clients receive, since higher wages make for lower turnover. The improved working and living conditions that result benefit caregivers and those they serve alike. The author\u27s empirical analysis has obvious ramifications for low-wage employment generally, particularly in the burgeoning health care and personal services sector
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Conversations: Candace Barrington Interviews Patience Agbabi, author of Telling Tales
No full textCandace Barrington interviews Patience Agbabi about her relationship to Geoffrey Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales
Paid Care Work
No full textCandace Howes, Carrie Leana and Kristin Smith investigate the dynamics within the paid care sector and find problematic wages and working conditions, including high turnover, inadequate training and a “pay penalty” for workers who enter care jobs. These conditions have consequences: poor job quality in child care and adult care also leads to poor care quality
Candace O’Connor’s Story of Jo
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Department of BioMolecular Sciences
No full textDepartment/Unit poster (BioMolecular Sciences). Corresponding author: Candace Lowstuter ([email protected])https://egrove.olemiss.edu/pharm_annual_posters_2022/1010/thumbnail.jp
Who will care for the women?
No full textOver 20 million people today, including children, working-age disabled, and elderly persons, require some sort of assistance to live safely. Largely because women live longer than men, well into the ages when the probability of needing care increases, 70 percent of elderly people who need long-term care are women. Furthermore, most long-term care is provided by women, mainly as unpaid care in the home, or as low-paid care in institutions and community settings (Stone & Weiner 2001). The United States faces a severe long-term care crisis because of the nation\u27s inability to plan for the changing demographic balance. The crisis in long term care has two problems: a) that we are putting too many resources into institutional care relative to home- and community-based care and relying too heavily on unpaid care in the home to meet the real needs of the aging population, and b) that we do not, and increasingly will not, have enough people to provide for the volume of care that will be needed in the coming decades. This chapter begins with a description of the long-term care system in the United States – what long-term care is, who needs it, in what settings it is provided, and who pays for it. Using the author\u27s analysis of a national survey of caregivers conducted by the National Alliance for Caregiving and the AARP in 2003 along with other sources, this section shows that a substantial portion of the people who need long-term care rely on unpaid care from family and friends, mainly women. When people do receive paid care, almost half – mostly women -- receive it in institutional settings. The discussion demonstrates that women are far more likely to end up in institutions than men, even controlling for age and level of impairment. It then argues that, for a number of reasons, states and the federal government will have to respond to the preferences of consumers for home- and community-based care
Inside the Archives: Researching Cross-Cultural Marriages in 19th Century Whatcom County
No full textHistorical researcher and consultant Candace Wellman has uncovered the hidden histories of eight indigenous women who married early-Whatcom County officials, military officers, and other settlers. In this presentation, she discusses her research and illuminates the lasting legacy of these women whose alliances played a crucial role in 19th century regional settlement. Wellman is the author of Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast Through Cross-Cultural Marriages and Interwoven Lives: Indigenous Mothers of Salish Coast Communities
Multimedia technology enhanced materials development for indigenous language revitalization
No full textUtilizing multimedia technology allows for materials to be developed and disseminated, expands the domains in which the language is used, provides relevance, significance and purpose, and also provides for preservation of Indigenous languages (Author 2009). This presentation discusses results from a course that enriches theory, practice and application with project-based outcomes (low-, mid-, and high-technology initiatives) based on the adapted technacy framework for Indigenous language revitalization (ATFILR). The ATFILR includes five components that are required to determine the appropriateness of the use of technology in Indigenous language revitalization: linguistic and cultural, social, technological, environmental, and economic factors. Every factor requires consideration of each of the other four factors to help decide the appropriateness of technology in response to local contexts and individual or community goals.
Using this framework, the course created a platform to utilize multimedia technology resources that supports Indigenous language revitalization specifically and other heritage languages broadly, based upon a targeted audience and degree of fluency. Theoretical discussions were complemented with hands on technology training, which provided Indigenous and heritage language speakers, learners and educators opportunities to create and develop materials for language education. Students were re-introduced to mindtools that are common everyday technologies found in most homes, schools, and offices (i.e. word processing and presentation software) to learn with and along side. Using these tools, each student built upon their understanding to include new skills to increase linguistic and digital knowledge.
In a short period of time, each student successfully created several language materials, in a language other than English, which included a hardcopy book (low-tech initiative), audio recording or digital story (mid-tech initiative), and a multimedia interactive language lesson (high-tech initiative). In addition, students demonstrated how their new developed materials would be used to supplement language learning and teaching environments. The cultural and linguistic diversity of the students and range of their academic backgrounds contributed to material development in various languages that included: həәn̓ q̓ əәmin̓ əәm̓ , Hul’q’umi’num’, Cree, Dene, Kwak’wala, Liq’wala, Sliammon, Nisga’a, Tahltan, Lakota, Mohegan, Maliseet, Maidu, Blackfoot, Musqueam, Nahuatl, Dogon, Lusoga, Greek, Japanese, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, and Spanish. Though each student varied in their language ability, their enthusiasm and success came from the need to create language learning environments for their family, community, and students
Candace Fleming, Crash from Outer Space: Unraveling the Mystery of Flying Saucers, Alien Beings, and Roswell
No full textIn Crash from Outer Space: Unraveling the Mystery of Flying Saucers, Alien Beings, and Roswell, award-winning author Candace Fleming composes a well-crafted narrative that seeks to further fuel the discussions surrounding one of the most enduring enigmas of post-WWII America: What really happened in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947? The question guiding Fleming’s research is nothing new to the field of ufology. For nearly eighty years, conspiracy theorists, extraterrestrial enthusiasts, and those..
Dollars and Nonsense: Women at Work
No full textDollars and Nonsense: Women at Work is a collection of creative nonfiction essays based on the personal experiences of Candace U. Grissom and the women in her family. Intended to be both truthful and humorous, the four essays each explore the challenges of a different occupation in which the author has been engaged. The first essay, “On Top of a Goldmine, But Still on the Ground,” describes lessons that the writer learned while working in her family’s jewelry store in a small Alabama town. Next, in “The Reluctant Advocate,” the author chronicles her unfulfilling legal career, including struggles with an overbearing senior partner at a law firm. In the third essay, “The Room Where Songs Go To Die,” the writer gives readers an insider’s look into the business side of Nashville’s Music Row. Last, in “Cruise of the Rolling Adjunct,” the author describes how her six years of teaching as a part-time adjunct instructor almost ruined her dream of becoming a college English professor. Culminating in an ending that is hopeful without being sentimental, Dollars and Nonsense shows how being a young working woman can be a difficult, yet rewarding, experience
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