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Brigitte Aulenbacher, Helma Lutz, Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck & Karin Schwiter (Eds.): Home Care for Sale The Transnational Brokering of Senior Care in Europe

London: Sage Publications 2024

The world of senior care provision and care work is changing rapidly. Across Europe, brokering agencies for live-in care workers have become powerful players in reshaping welfare systems, transnational care chains and working conditions. This volume draws together the latest research on live-in home care for seniors in Europe, exploring processes of commodification and marketisation, the transnationalisation of care work, the private household as a workplace, and workers’ contestation of the live-in care arrangement. Together, they depict far-reaching challenges in care provision and care work.