Home Care for Sale
The Transnational Brokering of Senior Care in Europe
Edited by:
- Brigitte Aulenbacher – Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
- Helma Lutz – Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany
- Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck – Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany
- Karin Schwiter – University of Zurich, Switzerland
March 2024 | 352 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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.
Chapter:
pp. 64-78.
Dóra Gábriel and Noémi Katona
