As an Equal?: Au Pairing in the 21st Century
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ISBN13:9781783604975
出版社:Zed Books
作者:Rosie Cox; Nicky Busch
出版日:2018/11/15
裝訂/頁數:平裝/208頁
規格:21.6cm*13.3cm*1.9cm (高/寬/厚)
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Au pairs are relied upon by tens of thousands of UK families to do everything from childcare and housework to elder care, pet feeding and waiting at dinner parties. Traditionally thought of as privileged and well-educated young women having fun on a 'gap year' abroad, au pairs have been excluded from many of the recent discussions on migrant domestic labour. However, since 2008 au pairing has been effectively unregulated in the UK and the result is that au pairs now constitute one of the poorest paid and least protected groups of workers.
Through an examination of lived experiences, As an Equal? draws on detailed research to examine au pairs and the families who host them in contemporary Britain, revealing au pairing to have become increasingly indistinguishable from other forms of domestic labour. Crucially, hosting an au pair is shown to form part of families' attempts to provide good (enough) childcare in the context of extended working hours and poor public childcare provision. This increased reliance of families on an exploited workforce is shown to form part of the wider political climate of economic austerity, and raises profound questions about the position of women within the neoliberal economy.
Through an examination of lived experiences, As an Equal? draws on detailed research to examine au pairs and the families who host them in contemporary Britain, revealing au pairing to have become increasingly indistinguishable from other forms of domestic labour. Crucially, hosting an au pair is shown to form part of families' attempts to provide good (enough) childcare in the context of extended working hours and poor public childcare provision. This increased reliance of families on an exploited workforce is shown to form part of the wider political climate of economic austerity, and raises profound questions about the position of women within the neoliberal economy.
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Rosie Cox is reader in geography and gender studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She is author of The Servant Problem: Domestic Employment in a Global Economy; coeditor of Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination; and coauthor of Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food: Exploring Alternatives and Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life. Nicole Busch is a research fellow on the Economic and Social Research Council project “Au pairing after the au pair scheme: new migration rules and childcare in private homes in the UK.”
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