The world of senior care provision and care work is changing rapidly. Across Europe, brokering agencies for live-in care workers have become powerful players in reshaping welfare systems, transnational care chains and working conditions. This volume draws together the latest research on live-in home care for seniors in Europe, exploring processes of commodification and marketisation, the transnationalisation of care work, the private household as a workplace, and workers’ contestation of the live-in care arrangement. Together, they depict far-reaching challenges in care provision and care work.
Senior home care for sale: agency-brokered transnational live-in care in Europe
Brigitte Aulenbacher, Helma Lutz, Ewa Palenga‐Möllenbeck, Karin Schwiter
págs. 1-19
Divided Europe?: The role of home care agencies from Poland, and how the ideal of decent work gets lost along transnational value chains
págs. 23-36
Business preferences in long-term care: the case of live-in home care in Ireland
págs. 37-50
págs. 51-63
Diversification of the senior home care market in Hungary: informality and the operational modes of intermediaries
págs. 64-78
The ‘good agency’?: On the interplay of formalization and informality in the contested marketization of live-in care in Austria
págs. 79-94
págs. 99-111
págs. 112-126
págs. 127-141
págs. 142-156
'As I always say, you really need to tame them!’: The working conditions of migrant senior care workers employed by brokering agencies in Belgium
págs. 159-172
págs. 173-187
Shaping working hours in the shadow of the law?: Experiences of live-in migrant care workers, brokering agencies and family care managers in the Netherlands
págs. 188-201
Shaping the social and work-related well-being of migrant live-in carers: the ambiguous role of labour market intermediaries in England
págs. 202-218
At home with the employer?: Contradictory notions of the care client’s home as a workplace and living space
págs. 219-231
págs. 235-248
Fair care?: On the prospects of (and limits to) implementing ‘fairness’ in live-in care
págs. 249-261
Invisible, yet one of the family?: Unravelling the precarious employment conditions of migrant Filipina live-in domestic workers and caregivers in Greece
págs. 262-277
Breaking out of the ‘prisoner of love’ dilemma: infrastructures of solidarity for live-in care workers in Switzerland
págs. 278-292
Brokering care migration: a new element in the transnational care worker supply chain
págs. 295-310
© 2001-2024 Fundación Dialnet · Todos los derechos reservados