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New Care Markets, Labor and Care Disputes: The Global Brokering of Domestic Care
New Care Markets, Labor and Care Disputes: The Global Brokering of Domestic Care
Abstract Submissions Closed
Saturday, 27 February 2021: 09:00-10:30
Location:
RC30 Sociology of Work (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
Post-1989, in the new phase of globalization, and forced since the late 1990s domestic care provision is underlying deep going and far reaching changes. The sociology of care, labor and welfare studies diagnose interwoven tendencies: changing gender/intergenerational arrangements in family/kin; the forced commodification, marketization, corporatization of care; new forms of governance and the paradigm shift in the (declining and emerging) welfare states from welfare to workfare going along with new concepts of aging; the transnationalization of labor, policies and politics. Under these auspices brokers flourish on arising and increasing care markets. On the one hand, this goes along with contradictory and ambivalent effects concerning the legalization, formalization, and professionalization of domestic care and the transnational marketization and exploitation of cheap labor by recruiting (mostly) female migrant care workers. On the other hand, in Global South earlier than in Global North, labor and care disputes indicate that domestic care has become a contested terrain in which new forms of organizing and struggles emerge. The session invites scholars who investigate global or local brokering of domestic care to contribute to the following topics: How is care brokered? How does this concern the meaning and organization of care? How are the inequalities between and in countries concerned? Which labor and care disputes do emerge and how are they organized? Which methological perspectives allow to investigate the sensitive field of domestic care? Which theoretical perspectives are useful to understand the brokering and organization of and the struggles around domestic care?
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