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  • Maria Kontos and Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, eds. Migrant domestic workers and family life: international perspectives. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. XI + 341 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-32354-5 [Elektronski vir]
    Bajt, Veronika
    Throughout Western Europe live-in domestic workers such as cooks, housekeepers, and nannies were quite common until the second half of the twentieth century. The post-war period of socioeconomic ... rebuilding brought social welfare and publicly funded care facilities that effectively reduced the demand for live-in domestic workers, and until quite recently only the wealthy upper social strata could (and would) still employ full-time carers. Yet, recent trends show that the need for private care work is again increasing across Europe, caused especially by the growing demand for elder care. Research has already confirmed the return of the live-in domestic care work model in some European countries, coupled with the dismantling of the welfare state, as well as closure of state-funded childcare facilities and other forms of public care infrastructure.
    Source: Laboratorium [Elektronski vir] : Russian review of social research. - ISSN 2078-1938 (No. 3, 2016, str. 127-132)
    Type of material - e-article ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2016
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 1173613

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    http://www.soclabo.org/index.php/laboratorium/article/view/663

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