Taking worker productivity to a new level? Electronic Monitoring in homecare—the (re)production of unpaid labour
研究了家庭护理中电子监控对有偿与无偿工作时间比例的影响，发现电子监控与零时合同结合可能压缩有偿工作时间、增加无偿劳动，对政策制定者和护理行业管理者有参考价值。
This article explores the use of Electronic Monitoring ( EM ) in homecare and its impact on the ratio of paid to unpaid working time. It argues that whilst Zero Hours Contracts ( ZHC s) blur the distinction between paid and unpaid labour, the introduction of EM can formalise and regulate the demarcation between the two. In the context of local authority commissioning and constrained budgets, the combination of EM and ZHC 's may excise so‐called ‘unproductive’ but available labour from homecare. In particular, the minute‐by‐minute commissioning of care that EM facilitates means the cost of homecare is anchored in the time that worker's spend in client's houses, squeezing out paid travel, time between visits, training and supervision. Paid working time is minimised whilst maximising the use of unpaid time with resulting intensification of care labour.