Ethnicisation and Domesticisation: The Impact of Care, Gender and Migration Regimes on Paid Domestic Work in Europe

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Methodology -- The Three Analyses of This Research -- First Part: Descriptive Analysis of the Domestic Sector -- Second Part: The Construction of the Typologies -- Third Analysis: Measuring the Impact of Typologies -- The Main Methodological Limitations -- Secondary Analyses of Existing Data -- International Comparisons -- Statistical Analyses with a Limited Number of Countries -- Analyses Using the EU-LFS Data -- The Informal Labour Market -- The Statistical Definition of the Migrant Population -- References -- Part I: Paid Domestic Work -- Chapter 2: Understanding Contemporary Domestic Work: Challenges, Continuities and Discontinuities -- From Old to Contemporary Forms of Domestic Work -- The Resurgence of Paid Domestic Work -- The Main Characteristics of Contemporary Paid Domestic Work -- The Increase in the Size of the Domestic Sector -- The Structural Factors Determining the Increase of the Domestic Sector -- Other Reasons Explaining the Increase of the Domestic Sector -- The Feminisation of Paid Domestic Work -- The Ethnicisation of Paid Domestic Work -- Low Reputation and Poor Working Conditions -- References -- Chapter 3: Analysis of Contemporary Paid Domestic Work in Europe: Similarities and Differences Between EU Member States -- The Definition of Contemporary Paid Domestic Work -- The Statistical Definition of the Domestic Sector -- Domestic Workers as per ISCO-08 Classification -- Childcare and Older Care -- Definition of House-related Workers -- Methodology and Data -- The Data -- The Analyses -- Results -- The Size and the Structure of the Domestic Sector -- The Informal Economy -- The Workforce Composition -- The Concentration of Women in the Domestic Sector.