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As an Equal? - Au Pairing in the 21st Century (Paperback)
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As an Equal? - Au Pairing in the 21st Century (Paperback)
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Au pairs are relied upon by tens of thousands of UK families to do
everything from childcare and housework to elder care, pet feeding
and waiting at dinner parties. Traditionally thought of as
privileged and well-educated young women having fun on a 'gap year'
abroad, au pairs have been excluded from many of the recent
discussions on migrant domestic labour. However, since 2008 au
pairing has been effectively unregulated in the UK and the result
is that au pairs now constitute one of the poorest paid and least
protected groups of workers. Through an examination of lived
experiences, As an Equal? draws on detailed research to examine au
pairs and the families who host them in contemporary Britain,
revealing au pairing to have become increasingly indistinguishable
from other forms of domestic labour. Crucially, hosting an au pair
is shown to form part of families' attempts to provide good
(enough) childcare in the context of extended working hours and
poor public childcare provision. This increased reliance of
families on an exploited workforce is shown to form part of the
wider political climate of economic austerity, and raises profound
questions about the position of women within the neoliberal
economy.
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