“…Desirable recruits are being repelled by outworn restrictions, long hours, lack of opportunity for social and cultural activity, low pay and poor prospects. The Association will work, by methods of persuasion and the education of public opinion, to secure adequate freedom, leisure and remuneration for nurses, a high standard of professional qualification and conduct, and wider opportunities for service. …”

“…Such arrangements can offer independence, flexibility and employment opportunities, but can also affect their working conditions, their ability to participate in collective bargaining or fully enjoy freedom of association, as well as their access basic social protection. …”

“…"More than ever before, we live in a culture that excoriates inactivity and demonizes idleness. …”

“…CA is one of the currently most influential attempts to reconcile the competing demands which are associated with the fundamental conceptions of equality, recognition and liberty and advocates an egalitarian, political conception of social justice which is concerned with the cultivation, maximization and just distribution of the (real) freedom of individuals. …”