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au pairing in the twenty first century
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cox, Rosie
- Creator
- Busch, Nicole
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 52 2018 - B
- Thesaurus
- au-pairs, kinderopvang, huishoudelijke arbeid, arbeidsomstandigheden, Verenigd Koninkrijk, statistiek
- Description
- Tens of thousands of families rely on au pairs to do everything from childcare and housework to elder care, pet feeding, and waiting at dinner parties. Both the United States and the United Kingdom put few regulations on au pairing. Through an examination of lived experiences, this publication draws on research to examine au pairs and the families who host them in contemporary Britain.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Burikova, Zuzana
- Creator
- Miller, Daniel
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 5 2010
- Description
- Ethnographic study made in London with Slovakian au pairs and people employing au pairs. Includes personal stories, analysis of household work as material culture and of the aspects of inequality and racism in au pair-employee-relationships as well as descriptions of the au pairs’ free time activities and relationships. Finally, au pair life is analysed using a rite de passage -model. The conclusion includes recommendations to how to improve the current situation of au pair work. Other academic studies of domestic labour are introduced in an appendix.
the home life of a global economy
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cox, Rosie
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 53 2006
- Thesaurus
- globalisering, huishoudelijke arbeid, au-pairs, dienstmeisjes, arbeidsmarkt, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Description
- The explosion in paid domestic employment is part of a global trend. Women from countries such as the Philippines take on domestic jobs in order to support families at home, whilst students from Eastern Europe, the EU and Brazil work as au pairs in order to study English and improve their employment prospects. Rosie Cox examines the reality of paid domestic labour in Britain today and explores the global trends that sustain this growth of domestic employment. She shows how the economy depends on women working outside the home, how it is the employment of domestic workers that helps make this possible and examines the experiences of both employers and employees who have joined this new global labour market.
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