Employers, Agencies and Immigration

Abstract

Contents: The employers' perspective on paid domestic and care work, Anna Triandafyllidou and Sabrina Marchetti. Part I Everyday Negotiations through the Employers' Eyes: Employers as 'care managers': contracts, emotions and mutual obligations within Italy's invisible welfare system, Maurizio Ambrosini Modern domesticity: why professional women hire domestic workers in Spain, Pilar Gonalons-Pons Class guilt? Employers and their relationships with domestic workers in Poland, Anna Kordasiewicz Dilemmas of paid home-care for the elderly in Spain: daughters, elderly and domestic employees, Cristina Vega Solis 'Mum seems happy'. Relatives of dependent elders and the difficult task to employ a migrant care-giver, Sabrina Marchetti. Part II Employers and the Changing Policies on Domestic and Care Work: Employment without employers? The public discourse on care during the regularisation reform in Austria, Bernhard Weicht Outsourcing housework: clients, agencies and the voucher system in Brussels, Beatriz Camargo An employer sui generis: how placement agencies are changing the nature of paid childcare in the Czech Republic, Adela Souralova When the state steps in: an experiment of subsidised hiring of domestic workers in Slovenia, A1/2iva Humer and Majda HrA3/4enjak. Part III From Host Parents to Employers: Recent Developments in Au Pair Schemes: Au pairs and changing family needs in the United Kingdom, Lenka Pelechova A fair deal? Paid domestic labour in social democratic Norway, Guro Korsnes Kristensen Paying for care: advantages and challenges for the employers, Sabrina Marchetti and Anna Triandafyllidou. Index.