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“A Culture of Caring”: Documenting Home Health Care Workers

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

This guest post is by Professor Bob Bussel of the University of Oregon Labor Education and Research Center in Eugene, who organized the documentary team that produced the collection now online as “Taking Care”: Documenting Home Health Care Workers that is part of the Occupational Folklife Project.  Home care workers represent what scholars describe as a …

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“Taking Care: Documenting the Occupational Culture of Home Health Care Workers” Now Online

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

The American Folklife Center is delighted to announce that an important new oral history collection documenting the lives and careers of home health care workers throughout the state of Oregon is now available online through the Library of Congress’s website. This fieldwork project is part of American Folklife Center’s Occupational Folklife Project and the 7th …

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