Privatization, Hybridization and Resistance in Contemporary Care Work
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter identifies seven forms of overlapping and interwoven privatization. In the current era of austerity, privatization has been able to extend its reach through these integrated processes and, in some cases, operate almost by stealth as an overarching ideological force that legitimizes private-market relations in places where it once would have been thought to be contrary to a public sector ethic of entitlement and equity. This is a growing dynamic across many public and non-profit/voluntary services and organizations. The chapter discusses the seven forms of privatization in the provision of long-term residential or nursing home care for older people in Ontario, Canada and in the UK. Private ownership is commonly thought to be the only or main form of privatization, but austerity analyses can be more incisive and specific, with a greater awareness of the complexity and multiplexity of the forms of privatization operating within formerly public and non-profit spaces. The chapter then looks at resistance in the sphere of care for older people, some of which has been successful.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".