The Unpaid Care Work-Paid Work Connection

Statistical Analysis of Time Spent on Unpaid and Paid Work

Participation in paid and unpaid work by adults with rheumatoid arthritis.

OBJECTIVE To define determinants of participation in paid and unpaid work by adults with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS A survey was designed in consultation with working age (< 65 yrs) adults with RA and sent to 269 patients recruited through 5 rheumatology practices. Hours worked "last week" was the measure of participation in employment and unpaid work (household, home maintenance, car...

Commitment with or without a stick of paid work: Comparison of paid and unpaid workers in a nonprofit organization

The aim of this study is to investigate whether nonpaid volunteers have other reasons to be a member of an organization than paid workers. Volunteers are assumed to be hard to manage, because there is no ‘‘stick of a paid contract’’ to keep them in line. Therefore, we studied different dimensions (i.e., affective, normative, and continuance) of organizational commitment of volunteers and paid w...

Integrating Unpaid Work into National Policies

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Prematurity and paid work during pregnancy.

Most enquiries into the causes of prematurity conclude that at least 50 per cent. of cases cannot be explained on medical grounds (Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the British Paediatric Association, 1949; Baird, 1953). In these cases pregnancy is clinically normal but nevertheless labour starts before the expected date, or, if the baby is born at ter...