Social Politics and the Commodification of Care

Ungerson, Clare

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“…On the other hand, family life and care responsibilities are construed in relation to notions of morality (Finch, 1989;Finch and Mason, 1993;Tronto, 1993;Ungerson, 1997;Smart and Neale, 1998;Daly and Lewis, 1999;Sevenhuijsen, 1998). In the 'moral economy of time', time ought to be given freely and should not be costed or measured.…”

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Time and the Negotiation of Work–Family Boundaries

2005

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Nutzungsbedingungen Julia BrannenABSTRACT. The article reproblematizes time in relation to the concept of the 'extended present' by drawing upon empirical material from a methodological study of work-family boundaries, the article examines the effects of workplace change in a call centre on employees' negotiation of these boundaries. Through detailed analysis of one of the cases discussed it shows how a female employee and her partner blur the boundaries between work and family life and how the woman concerned felt that she exercised control over time but also felt driven by it. The article sheds insight into the conditions that generate feelings of autonomy and its illusory nature. KEY WORDS • care • organizational change • time • work-family boundaries

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Time and the Negotiation of Work–Family Boundaries

2005

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“…In a wide range of countries different policy measurements have been introduced to meet these urgent policy problems, policy measurements that all encourage the development of a market of domestic services in private homes. Different types of public subsidies are used to make it cheaper and administrative simpler to pay child minders, nannies, elder carers, cleaners, relatives or domestic service workers for their services (Williams and Gavanas 2008;Ungerson and Yeandle 2007;Ungerson 1997). The methods of the reforms differ-cash for care, service vouchers, tax credits and tax incentives-but the reforms have in common that they intend to stimulate growth of a 'new' formal labour market sector within private households.…”

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Changing social organizations of care: a comparison of European policy reforms encouraging paid domestic work

Kvist

2012

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In many European countries different types of policy reforms intending to encourage growth in the domestic service sector have been introduced. The methods and reforms differ but mainly the reforms intend to stimulate growth of a 'new' legal labour market sector within private households. This potential growth sector in combination with insufficient or declining welfare states, inclining female labour market participation and ageing populations could be viewed as explanatory factors to the increased demand for domestic services. A growing amount of those performing paid domestic work in European homes are migrant women with or without papers. The aim of this article is to create a model that enables comparisons of these reforms, with a special focus on changing social organizations of care for elders, children and other dependent persons. Included in the analysis are European countries that have introduced wide domestic service policy reforms as measurement to encourage growth in the domestic service sector, i.

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“…This divergence may be the result of policy developments. For instance, cash allowances may commodify informal care (Ungerson 1997; or introduce new care markets. As a result, the allocation of services often remains independent of market forces and the family, while the production of services may be more dependent on the market or the family.…”

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“…First, the long-established gendered division of labour is likely to be affected by the changing modes of the organisation of care and by the new forms arising through intergenerational solidarities. Traditionally, the informal care work was almost exclusively carried out by women, but the (partial) commodification of care (Ungerson 1997) taking place in the familistic care model and the changing forms of intergenerational support are challenging the division of responsibilities and work between men and women. Among families that hired a paid worker to take care of an el-derly dependent, the fulfilment of filial obligations has become more a money and organisational matter than a matter of direct care provision.…”

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Strategies of Care : Changing Elderly Care in Italy and the Netherlands

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2010

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Social Politics and the Commodification of Care

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Time and the Negotiation of Work–Family Boundaries

Time and the Negotiation of Work–Family Boundaries

Changing social organizations of care: a comparison of European policy reforms encouraging paid domestic work

Strategies of Care : Changing Elderly Care in Italy and the Netherlands

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