Taking worker productivity to a new level? Electronic Monitoring in homecare—the (re)production of unpaid labour

• DOI: 10.1111/ntwe.12087
• Publication Date: 2017-07-25T10:55:44Z
• Authors: Sian Moore; L J B Hayes
• Keywords: Unpaid work

This article explores the use of Electronic Monitoring ( EM ) in homecare and its impact on ratio paid to unpaid working time. It argues that whilst Zero Hours Contracts ZHC s) blur distinction between labour, introduction can formalise regulate demarcation two. In context local authority commissioning constrained budgets, combination 's may excise so‐called ‘unproductive’ but available labour from homecare. particular, minute‐by‐minute care facilitates means cost is anchored time worker's spend client's houses, squeezing out travel, visits, training supervision. Paid minimised maximising with resulting intensification labour.