The Backstage of the Care Economy: Transnational Perspectives on the Commercialisation of Care
Autor Helma Lutzen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 mai 2025
What is it like to care for another family while yours remains in a different country? In today's capitalist society, migrant women performing care work in private households experience the painful tension of caring for both, often under precarious conditions.
Characterized as the 'backstage' family, the carer's remote relationship with their loved ones at home is often purely digital, a stark reminder of the isolation and emotional toll of their work. The double dilemmas of migrant motherhood and stay-behind fathers expose the pitfalls of transnational employment relations and the growth of social inequality.
Here, Helma Lutz explores the debates around this issue, focusing on carers from Eastern Europe working in the West. She unpacks questions around feminist critiques of capitalism and the commodification of emotional labor, exploring how gender justice and the search for socialist feminist utopias can shape how we see a future - not only for the improvement of the carers’ working and living conditions but also for a new way of dealing with care work.
Characterized as the 'backstage' family, the carer's remote relationship with their loved ones at home is often purely digital, a stark reminder of the isolation and emotional toll of their work. The double dilemmas of migrant motherhood and stay-behind fathers expose the pitfalls of transnational employment relations and the growth of social inequality.
Here, Helma Lutz explores the debates around this issue, focusing on carers from Eastern Europe working in the West. She unpacks questions around feminist critiques of capitalism and the commodification of emotional labor, exploring how gender justice and the search for socialist feminist utopias can shape how we see a future - not only for the improvement of the carers’ working and living conditions but also for a new way of dealing with care work.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780745345369
ISBN-10: 0745345360
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 8 graphs
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
ISBN-10: 0745345360
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 8 graphs
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
Recenzii
'The Backstage of the Care Economy reveals the causes and consequences behind the explosion of migrant care work. It is a remarkable accomplishment and contribution from one of the leading social scientists of gender, care and migration in Europe'
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Princeton University
'A tour de force distillation of radical social thought on domestic labour grounded in critiques of global capitalism. This prodigiously researched book strikes a perfect balance between theory and empirics, examining the entanglement of migrant women’s lives in former Socialist Republics as they shuttle between wage employment abroad and their homes'
Heidi Gottfried, co-editor of Global Labor Migration: New Directions
'A powerful, systemic analysis of the outsourcing of care in Western Europe and the transnational social inequalities underpinning these processes. With remarkable precision and insight, Lutz brings the contemporary 'private' relations of care to the front stage of theory and debate on capitalism and society – emboldening us all to engage vigorously with the centrality of care'
Isabel Shutes, Associate Professor, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
'Lutz tackles one of the most important issues facing us today: transnational care migration. Based on over 14-years of research and focusing on East-to-West European migrations of care workers, this book is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in gender, migration and care work'
Ito Peng, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of Toronto
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Princeton University
'A tour de force distillation of radical social thought on domestic labour grounded in critiques of global capitalism. This prodigiously researched book strikes a perfect balance between theory and empirics, examining the entanglement of migrant women’s lives in former Socialist Republics as they shuttle between wage employment abroad and their homes'
Heidi Gottfried, co-editor of Global Labor Migration: New Directions
'A powerful, systemic analysis of the outsourcing of care in Western Europe and the transnational social inequalities underpinning these processes. With remarkable precision and insight, Lutz brings the contemporary 'private' relations of care to the front stage of theory and debate on capitalism and society – emboldening us all to engage vigorously with the centrality of care'
Isabel Shutes, Associate Professor, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
'Lutz tackles one of the most important issues facing us today: transnational care migration. Based on over 14-years of research and focusing on East-to-West European migrations of care workers, this book is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in gender, migration and care work'
Ito Peng, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of Toronto
Notă biografică
Helma Lutz is a sociologist and Professor Emerita of Women’s and Gender Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. For many years she was the Acting Director of the Cornelia Goethe Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies. She is the author of The New Maids: Transnational Women and the Care Economy; the co-editor with Kathy Davis of The Routledge International Handbook of Intersectionality Studies and with Brigitte Aulenbacher, Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck and Karin Schwiter the co-editor of Home Care for Sale: The Transnational Brokering of Senior Care in Europe. She lives in Amsterdam.
Cuprins
Foreword 1. Uncaring Care-Economies
2. On the Road: The Supply Chain of Care Workers Between Germany and Central and East European Countries
3. Distance and proximity: Transnational mothering and emotional inequality
4. Euro-orphans: Transnational Motherhood Under Pressure
5. Masculinity and Care in Post-Socialism: The Fatherhood of Stay-Behind Partners
6. From Socialist Utopia to the Global Commercialization of Care: New Answers to an Old Question
7. The Care Economy after COVID19: Vulnerability and Resilience
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
2. On the Road: The Supply Chain of Care Workers Between Germany and Central and East European Countries
3. Distance and proximity: Transnational mothering and emotional inequality
4. Euro-orphans: Transnational Motherhood Under Pressure
5. Masculinity and Care in Post-Socialism: The Fatherhood of Stay-Behind Partners
6. From Socialist Utopia to the Global Commercialization of Care: New Answers to an Old Question
7. The Care Economy after COVID19: Vulnerability and Resilience
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Descriere
Shining a light on the commercialization of migrant care work