engleski

"No stop non-stop" ; practices and meanings of paid domestic and care work

The new millennium is characterized by multiple transformations in the labour market accompanied by a changing nature of work, such as the growth of the service sector and in the precarious modes of employment. Dictated by the ideology of flexibility, this scenario demands and absolute physical, emotional and personal commitment from the worker, whereupon his/her knowledge and life (bios) become key aspects that constitute contemporary bio- capitalism.Live-in informal domestic and care workers are an example of the embodiment of this transformation. This paper seeks to address local domestic and care work markets and analyse practices and meanings of work in order to disclose its immaterial, emotional and affective features as well as the dynamics and negotiations produced within these new "economy of care".

feminisation of work, paid domestic work, informality, caregivers

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