Work, Care & Occupational Exclusion

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Abstractions about how work demands, care responsibilities, and disability intersect with social structure, including measures and theories of labor participation (absence rate, compatibility-with-childcare theory, conservation of resources theory), workplace hazard control (hazard elimination), and structural exclusion from meaningful occupation (occupational apartheid, social model of disability).

6 abstractions in this family — domain-specific abstractions that sit near one another in structural-signature space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its short description.

• Absence rate — The proportion of an employed reference population absent from usual full-time work during a specified measurement period under a declared absence definition.
• Compatibility-with-childcare theory — Explain gendered task allocation by asking whether work demands—especially distance, duration, interruption, and hazard—can be combined with culturally assigned care of young children.
• Conservation of resources theory — A stress theory proposing that people seek to obtain, retain and protect valued resources and experience stress when loss is threatened, occurs or follows unrewarded investment.
• Hazard elimination — The highest-priority hazard-control strategy: remove the hazardous material, condition, task or process so the associated exposure no longer exists.
• Occupational apartheid — Systematic denial of meaningful occupations to groups through social, political, economic, or institutional segregation.
• Social model of disability — A model locating disability substantially in social barriers and exclusion rather than solely in an individual impairment.