SOC352H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Care Work, Social Reproduction, Wage Labour
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Although much care work remains unpaid and informal, several states have setup a variety of migration and labour regimes to guarantee a steady supply ofworkers to provide paid live-in care in the home. At the interface of state and market, provide a different context than"traditional" production work for u nderstanding workers" experiences and theexercise of worker agency, a key concept for labour geograph ers. Nation states remain key actors insofar as they increasingly meet this demandby facilitating, directly or i ndirectly, the recruitment of migrant workers, especially women, into care work. Under the pretence of the worker being "one of the family", employerslegitimise overlong working hour s and constant surveillance. Ourargument synthesises the results of a four- year comparative research project, which explored how national immigration and care regimes interact to shapeand institutionalise relations of social reproduction and paid care work in fourcountries: the uk,
