Home-Based Work in Victorian Britain: Insights for Contemporary Occupational Health and Safety

Anchored by family research case studies, this book presents documents and newspaper accounts about the diverse experiences of three real people who lived and worked from their homes in the Victorian era.

Gillian Joseph is a Canadian, former academic and a professional researcher, as well as an author and editor of a number of academic papers, book chapters and books on topics associated with work and well- being. Trained as a social gerontologist, Gillian was formerly a research associate at the Centre for Families, Work and Well- Being at the University of Guelph, an instructor of family studies who developed and taught courses at several universities including the University of Guelph and the University of Guelph- Humber, and the Director of her own research support company, Clear Pane Research Services, which she has led for over 14 years. Both independently and in partnership with other academics, Gillian has worked on research projects funded by government agencies and private organizations, published in academic journals, and edited and contributed to books on topics associated with work, risk and well- being as applied to both organizations and employees. With a focus on employees, her research and publications have spanned the topics of telework, the physical and mental health risks associated with human resource work, paid and unpaid care work, precarious work, risk factors associated with negative outcomes among employed family caregivers, employed family caregivers who use employment as respite and the risks associated with frontline long- term professional care work in bad winter weather. Gillian has also written about organizational policy including healthcare restructuring, organizational pandemic planning, economic healthcare accounting systems, policies affecting long- term care work as well as writing about organizational and employee risks associated with compassionate care policy.