Home care for sale : the transnational brokering of senior care in Europe / edited by Brigitte Aulenbacher, Helma Lutz, Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, Karin Schwiter.
Introduction: senior home care for sale: agency-brokered transnational live-in care in Europe / Brigitte Aulenbacher [and 3 others]. Part I: Care markets, care provision, working conditions and the role of brokering agencies. Divided Europe? The role of home care agencies from Poland, and how the ideal of decent work gets lost along transnational value chains / Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck -- Business preferences in long-term care: the case of live-in home care in Ireland / Julien Mercille -- The effectiveness of informal care work brokering in Italy / Martina Cvajner -- Diversification of the senior home care market in Hungary: informality and the operational modes of intermediaries / Dóra Gábriel and Noémi Katona -- The "good agency"? On the interplay of formalisation and informality in the contested marketisation of live-in care in Austria / Brigitte Aulenbacher and Veronika Prieler. Part II: Transnationality, mobilities, border regimes and global care chains. Multiple interacting migration patterns in senior care in Europe's semi-periphery / Majda Hrženjak and Maja Breznik -- Distored emancipation and the transnational political economy of social reproduction / Zuzana Uhde -- "Care bonds" in times of COVID-19 / Petra Ezziddine -- Transnational migration and brokering agencies in the home care sector in Spain / Raquel Martínez-Buján and Paloma Moré. Part III: Worlds apart: the househol as a workplace. "As I always say, you really need to tame them!" The working conditions of migrant senior care workers employed by brokering agencies in Belgium / Chiara Giordano -- Brokering agencies as mangers of conflicts and emotions in live-in senior care / Lucia Amorosi -- 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 / María Bruquetas-Callejo -- Shaping the social and work-related well-being of migrant live-in carers: the ambiguous role of labour market intermediaries in England / Shereen Hussein, Agnes Turnpenny, and Caroline Emberson -- At home with the employer? Contradictory notions of the care client's home as a workplace and living space / Helma Lutz and Aranka Benazha. Part IV: Contested labour rights, fair-care initiatives and labour organising. Ethical comments on the working-time regime of live-in care / Bernhard Emunds -- Fair care? On the prospects of (and limits to) implementing "fairness" in live-in care / Karin Schwiter and Anahi Villalba Kaddour -- Invisible, yet one of the family? Unravelling the precarious employment conditions of migrant Filipina live-in domestic workers and caregivers in Greece / Theodoros Fouskas -- Breaking out of the "prisoner of love" dilemma: infrastructures of solidarity for live-in care workers in Switzerland / Sarah Schilliger. Part V: Afterword. Brokering care migration, a new element in the transnational care worker supply chain / Ito Peng.
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