In adition to the analysis of descriptive indicators of the care, migration and labour regimes, providing the interpretative framework, the article asseses the intersections of gender, ethnicity and class and (in)balance of power. Through the analysis of various spheres of grey care market, the author asseses Slovenia's position in the »global care chain« and finds that »local care chain« prevails in the field of childcare and elderly care, while co-occurance of female gender, »other« ethnicity and poverty is typicall for the field of household cleaning.
COBISS.SI-ID: 756333
A case study from Slovenia indicates that the care configuration is changing in Eastern Europe, too, with growth in the demand for and supply of informal paid care work as an ongoing household strategy for managing the care deficit characteristic of postindustrial, neoliberal social organizations driven by work ethic. The main message of the paper is to highlight that the revival of informal paid care work is underresearched in the Eastern European context and framed one-sidedly, exclusively from the supply side.
COBISS.SI-ID: 826989
The article articulates how irregular paid domestic workers with their activity in domestic work, reorganize notions of welfare and the relationship between domestic and paid work in European societies in a private, anti-egalitarian and exclusionary way. Paper confronts the situations of the two groups of women: those doubly burdened by productive and reproductive work and hence forced to transfer part of reproductive labour to irregular domestic workers, and long-term unemployed women who are facing poverty, so they undertake the work of other women in the grey economy.
COBISS.SI-ID: 709485
The focus of the paper is on two contemporary strategies dealing with care deficit: policies of new fatherhood and the increase of paid domestic work. The last one results in partial unburdening of high class women, while it maintains social inequalities and gender differences. Policies of new fathehood bring more gender equality in the private sphere with more egalitarian concept, but still they work more on a declarative level.
COBISS.SI-ID: 734573
The article discusses the social contexts and factors that influence the way in which new fatherhood in Slovenia is evolving, among others, structural gender inequalities and persistence of traditional division of family labour, strong female family networks, persistent ideology of motherhood as primary parental role etc.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29533533