Racialised Workers and European Older-Age Care From Care Labour to Care Ethics /

• Main Author: Sahraoui, Nina (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
• Subjects: Sociology.; Emigration and immigration.; Industrial sociology.; Gender Studies.; Migration.; Sociology of Work.

In the context of ageing populations, increasing participation of women in the labour market, growing marketisation of care provision, and, most importantly, global inequalities, racialised care workers have come to fulfil a key role within older-age care in western European societies. This book pre...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: from the empirical study of care to feminist care ethics
• 2. Theoretical framings: Feminist standpoints, gendered political economy and new approaches to care ethics
• 3. Setting the scene: A gendered and transnational political economy of older-age care
• 4. Entering the older-age care sector
• 5. Precarious care jobs in neoliberal times
• 6. Lived precariousness through body and mind
• 7. Racism, the industry's blind spot
• 8. Negotiating the future, within and out of care
• 9. Social reproduction and care ethics.