The Political Economy of Household Services in Europe
Over the past two decades, countries in Continental and Northern Europe have set up specific policies to promote the development of household services. This edited volume analyses the aims pursued with these policies, and the ways in which the issues have been framed. It examines the resultant labour market outcomes, focusing on the forms and quality of employment in the household services sector, and highlighting both the symbolic and economic effects of the construction of domestic and care services as low-skilled, low-value work. The authors demonstrate how these policies have actively contributed to the structuring of dualisms within the labour market, reinforcing social, gendered and ethnic divides. They also shed light on the distributive effects of these policies, which essentially benefit affluent households, and question their efficiency, not least with regard to their employment objectives.The True Finns criticized the decision to cut the tax reduction, claiming that it would hurt employment and again increase the amount of undeclared work in the domestic service sector (TAA 381/2011, KK 637/2012). In 2013, the governmentanbsp;...
| Title | : | The Political Economy of Household Services in Europe |
| Author | : | Clément Carbonnier, Nathalie Morel |
| Publisher | : | Palgrave Macmillan - 2015-09-02 |
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