Guilt, care, and the ideal worker: Comparing guilt among working carers and care workers

This article explores care workers and working carers' experiences of work. It focuses on how both groups experience pressures to adhere an ideal, which this argues, is centered emotional reaction guilt. Through ideal a guilty worker, “care ethic” reconfigured become “work ethic.” Drawing 120 semistructured interviews with workers, carers, trade union officers, company managers, the examines guilt experienced constructed in workplace, it becomes beneficial aims employing organization. The links construction instrumentalization Acker's analysis worker problematic discourse “heroism” key during Covid-19 pandemic. can reinforce image sacrificial worker; implies that if do not take approach as part their work ethics, they should feel guilty.