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Cultural Exchange or Cheap Labor Power? Au Pairs in Sweden

Platzer, Ellinor

Sociologisk forskning, 2002-01, Vol.39 (3-4), p.32-57 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Cultural Exchange or Cheap Labor Power? Au Pairs in Sweden
Autor: Platzer, Ellinor
Assuntos: Civil Rights ; Domestics ; Eastern Europe ; European Cultural Groups ; Labor Policy ; Labor Supply ; Migrant Workers ; Sweden ; Youth Employment
É parte de: Sociologisk forskning, 2002-01, Vol.39 (3-4), p.32-57
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Descrição: During the mid-1980s, domestic services were reintroduced in Sweden. It is mostly the dual-career families that demand these services because of the unchanged gender division of labor in the households & their particular career lifestyles. An au pair system has established itself in Sweden & many au pairs are recruited from Eastern Europe. This form of domestic service is hidden behind formal rules, stating that the purpose of the au pair system is to let young people get to know Sweden & to learn the Swedish language. Instead, the au pairs are being used as cheap labor power without being entitled to any labor or civil rights. In this example of commodification though, labor power is not totally disembodied. It is embodied in the sense that some social categories are looked upon as more suitable than others for performing paid household work. 26 References. Adapted from the source document.
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