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‘THE GOOD LIVE-IN CARE WORKER’: SUBJECT FORMATION AND ETHNICISATION IN AUSTRIAN LIVE-IN CARE

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Prieler V.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2021
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vol. 53
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issue 5
483 – 501
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This paper investigates subject formation processes in Austrian live-in care. Proceeding from a Foucauldian understanding of subjectivity as a product of powerful discourses and techniques and based on an intersectional discourse analysis of interviews with different actors involved in this arrangement, it shows how the ideal live-in care worker combines professional and language skills with characteristics such as an intrinsic motivation, emotional competences, and adaptability. Ethnicity-related discourses play an important role in this context, be it with regard to highly valued qualities or as a justification for control and/or support, and thus serve as a means to reproduce power relations.
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NARRATIVES ON WORKING HOURS: AN ANALYSIS OF “PIONEER” BROKERING AGENCIES FOR LIVE-IN CARE WORK IN GERMANY

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Habel S.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2021
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vol. 53
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issue 5
463 – 482
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In the “grey market” for live-in care work in Germany, brokering agencies are playing an increasingly important role in shaping working conditions. Drawing on six expert interviews with “pioneer” brokering agencies, this article centres on these agencies’ narratives on working hours. The analysis reveals that these agencies’ understanding of working hours is contradictory: working hours are either referred to as a fixed, inter-subjectively measurable category or as a subjective phenomenon, leaving scope for divergent opinions. These perspectives are evident in the assumption of an (in)separability of working and leisure time, and in the understanding of leisure time as a personal need or a valid demand. In this context, constructing working hours as a subjective category thus functions as a legitimation narrative for extensive working hours. These findings are connected to the contradictory interpellations of live-in care workers, such as “fictive kin” and “manager of the self”, and to the underlying understandings of work.
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