Donna Baines
Professor
Research Classification
Research Interests
Anti-oppressive, decolonizing and critical approaches to theory and practice
Decent work and good care in social services, long term care, home care, etc.
Age-equity, age-inclusion, age-friendly cities
Harm reduction and supportive housing
Relevant Thesis-Based Degree Programs
Research Options
I am available and interested in collaborations (e.g. clusters, grants).
I am interested in and conduct interdisciplinary research.
Research Methodology
Critical ethnography, rapid ethnography, team ethnography, qualitative research of all kinds
Recruitment
Doctoral students
Any time / year round
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Publications
- Borrowed Time and Solidarity: The Multi-Scalar Politics of Time and Gendered Care Work (2021)
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, - Guest Editorial—Social Justice and an Ethic of Care (2021)
Research on Social Work Practice, 31 (6), 559--560 - Strengthening critical allyship in social work education: opportunities in the context of #BlackLivesMatter and COVID-19 (2021)
Social Work Education, , 1--17 - Nonprofit Care Work as Social Glue: Creating and Sustaining Social Reproduction in the Context of Austerity/Late Neoliberalism (2020)
Affilia, , 088610992090678 - Non-job work/unpaid caring: Gendered industrial relations in long-term care (2019)
Gender, Work & Organization, - Precarious care: International comparisons of nonprofit social service work (2019)
Women's Studies International Forum, 74, 210--217 - Care, Austerity and Resistance (2017)
Social Work in the City. Themes, Issues and Interventions in the 21st Century Urban Context., , 193--214 - Case Critical. Social Services and Social Justice in Canada. (2017)
Between the Lines, - Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice Social Justice Social Work (2017)
Fernwood, - Is Progressive, Critical, Anti-Oppressive Social Work Possible in Today’s Context? Exhausting Ethical Action + Revitalizing Resistance. (2017)
Progressive, Critical, Anti-Oppressive Social Work: Ethical Action, - Austerity policies, ‘precarity’ and the nonprofit workforce: A comparative study of UK and Canada (2016)
Journal of Industrial Relations, 58 (4), 455-472 - Coercive Care: Control and Coercion in the Restructured Care Workplace (2016)
Br J Soc Work, , bcw013 - Doing Critical Social Work - Foreward (2016)
- Moral projects and compromise resistance: resisting uncaring in nonprofit care work (2016)
Studies in Political Economy, 97 (2), 124--142 - Privatisation: Whose Needs Are Met? A Research Brief. (2016)
- Underpaid, unpaid, unseen, unheard and unhappy? Care work in the context of constraint (2016)
Journal of Industrial Relations, 58 (4), 449-454 - 'If I Had a Family, There Is No Way That I Could Afford to Work Here': Juggling Paid and Unpaid Care Work in Social Services (2015)
Gender, Work and Organization, 22 (6), 596-613 - Care work in the context of austerity (2015)
Competition and Change, 19 (3), 183-193 - Changing care? Men and managerialism in the nonprofit sector (2015)
Journal of Social Work, 15 (5), 459-478 - Neoliberalism and the convergence of nonprofit care work in Canada (2015)
Competition and Change, 19 (3), 194-209 - Promising Practices in Long Term Care (2015)
- Resisting regulatory rigidities: Lessons from front-line care work (2015)
Studies in Political Economy, 95, 137-160 - Understanding the negotiation of paid and unpaid care work in community services in cross-national perspective: The contribution of a rapid ethnographic approach (2015)
Journal of Family Studies, 21 (1), 7-21 - Using Comparative Perspective Rapid Ethnography in International Case Studies: Strengths and Challenges (2015)
Case Studies, 12 (1), 319--319 - What we are up against: Canada (2015)
- Fragmented outcomes: International comparisons of gender, managerialism and union strategies in the nonprofit sector (2014)
Journal of Industrial Relations, 56 (1), 24-42 - Government funding, employment conditions, and work organization in non-profit community services: A comparative study (2014)
Public Administration, 92 (3), 582-598 - Lean social care and worker identity: The role of outcomes, supervision and mission (2014)
Critical Social Policy, 34 (4), 433-453 - Not Profiting from Precarity: The Work of Nonprofit Service Delivery and the Creation of Precariousness (2014)
Just Labour, - Orchestrating Austerity: Impacts and Resistance (2014)
- Second Case Study, Precarity in the Non-Profit Sector. (2014)
- Resistance in and outside the workplace: Ethical practice and managerialism in the voluntary sector (2013)
Practical Social Work Ethics: Complex Dilemmas Within Applied Social Care, , 227-243 - Social justice social work struggles in Canada: Poverty, neoliberalism and symbolic resistance (2013)
Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work, , 491-497 - New Zealand Nonprofit Social Services Restructuring (2012)
- Restructuring and labour processes under marketisation: A Canadian perspective (2012)
Voluntary Organisations and Public Service Delivery, , 168-184 - Self-monitoring, self-blaming, self-sacrificing workers: Gendered managerialism in the non-profit sector (2012)
Women's Studies International Forum, 35 (5), 362-371 - 'It was just too hard to come back': Unintended policy impacts on work-family balance in the Australian and Canadian non-profit social services (2011)
Community, Work and Family, 14 (2), 233-248 - 'White knuckle care work': Violence, gender and new public management in the voluntary sector (2011)
Work, Employment and Society, 25 (4), 760-776 - Anti-Oppressive Practice: Roots, Theory and Tensions. (2011)
- Constrained by managerialism: Caring as participation in the voluntary social services (2011)
Economic and Industrial Democracy, 32 (2), 329-352 - Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice (2011)
- Employment implications of the outsourcing of public services to voluntary, not-for-profit organisations (2011)
International Journal of Public Sector Management, 24 (7) - Labour Processes Under Marketisation: A Canadian Perspective. (2011)
- Resistance as emotional work: the Australian and Canadian non-profit social services (2011)
Industrial Relations Journal, 42 (2), 139--156 - The Impact of Government Funding Models on Work Organisation and Employee Conditions in Non-Profit Community Services (2011)
- Work, Care, Resistance and Mothering: An Indigenous Perspective (2011)
- 'If we don't get back to where we were before': Working in the restructured non-profit social services (2010)
British Journal of Social Work, 40 (3), 928-945 - Gender mainstreaming in a development project: Intersectionality in a post-colonial un-doing? (2010)
Gender, Work and Organization, 17 (2), 119-149 - In a different way: Social unionism in the nonprofit social services-an Australian/Canadian comparison (2010)
Labor Studies Journal, 35 (4), 480-502 - Neoliberal restructuring, activism/participation, and social unionism in the nonprofit social services (2010)
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 39 (1), 10-28 - “Wages, Working Conditions, and Restructuring in Ontario’s Social Work Profession”. (2009)
Canadian Social Work Review, - In Global Crisis, Underfunding Community Services Has Costs. (2009)
Care Professionals, - Labour Studies, Social Unionism and Engaged Academics: Strategies and Struggles in Canada (2008)
Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, 19 (1-2), 107--119 - Race, resistance, and restructuring: Emerging skills in the new social services (2008)
Social Work, 53 (2), 123-131 - Review of Grant, K. et al. (2005) Caring For/ Caring About: Women, Homecare and Unpaid Care giving. (2008)
- Review of Majorie Cohen (ed) Training the Excluded for Work: Access and Equity for Women’s Immigrants, First Nations, Youth and People with Low Incomes (2008)
- It is Time to Receive the Recognition We Deserve. Report from the Task Force on Working Conditions and Quality of Life. (2007)
Ontario Association of Social Workers’ News Magazine. , - Bullying and Power: Manufacturing Vulnerability in a Small Canadian Town (2007)
Women and Work, - The case for catalytic validity: building health and safety through knowledge transfer (2007)
Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 5 (1), 75--89 - The Story Behind the Writing of "Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice". (2007)
Challenging Silences, - ‘If You Could Change One Thing’: Social Service Workers and Restructuring (2006)
Australian Social Work, 59 (1), 20--34 - "Whose needs are being served?" quantitative metrics and the reshaping of social services (2006)
Studies in Political Economy, (77), 195-209 - Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice: Building Transformative Politicized Social Work, Donna Baines (ed.), Nova Scotia, Fernwood Publishing, 2007, pp. 229, ISBN 978 1552662236, 24.95 (2006)
British Journal of Social Work, 38 (2), 420--421 - Gender, Juggling and Violence in Paid and Unpaid Care Work. (2006)
- Staying with people who slap us around: Gender, juggling responsibilities and violence in paid (and unpaid) care work (2006)
Gender, Work and Organization, 13 (2), 129-151 - Women and Poverty (Canada) (2005)
Sage, - Caring for nothing: Work organization and unwaged labour in social services (2004)
Work, Employment and Society, 18 (2), 267-295 - Losing the "Eyes in the Back of Our Heads": Social Service Skills, Lean Caring and Violence. (2004)
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, - Pro-market, non-market: The dual nature of organizational change in social services delivery (2004)
Critical Social Policy, 24 (1), 5-29 - Seven Kinds of Work - Only One Paid: Raced, Gendered and Restructured Work in Social Services. (2004)
Atlantis. Women's Studies Journal., - Race, Class, and Gender in the Everyday Talk of Social Workers: The Ways We Limit the Possibilities for Radical Practice (2003)
- Improving Work Organization to Reduce Injury and Illness: Social Services, Stress, Violence & Workload. Final Report. 2002 (2002)
Unpublished, - Migrant Workers as Non-Citizens: The Case against Citizenship as a Social Policy Concept (2002)
Studies in Political Economy, 69 (1), 75--107 - Radical Social Work: Race, Class, and Gender. (2002)
Race, Gender and Class, - Storylines in Racialized Times: Racism And Anti-racism in Toronto's Social Services (2002)
British Journal of Social Work, 32 (2), 185-199 - Everyday Practices of Race, Class and Gender (2001)
Journal of Progressive Human Services, 11 (2), 5--27 - Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the “Postsocialist” Condition, by Nancy Fraser (2000)
Feminist Economics, 6 (2), 149--153 - Feminist social work in the inner city: The challenges of race, class, and gender (1997)
Affilia - Journal of Women and Social Work, 12 (3), 297-317 - Rebel Without a Claim: Women's Changing Basis to Claim on the State. (1996)
Canadian Journal of Social Work,
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