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@article{1428036,
author = {Souralová, Adéla and Jelínek, Matouš},
article_location = {Amsterdam},
article_number = {September-October},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2018.08.002},
keywords = {Domestic work; Care work; Professionalization; Czech Republic},
language = {eng},
issn = {0277-5395},
journal = {Women's Studies International Forum},
title = {Constructing professional services : For-profit care and domestic work agencies in the Czech Republic},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539518300815},
volume = {70},
year = {2018}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 1428036
AU - Souralová, Adéla - Jelínek, Matouš
PY - 2018
TI - Constructing professional services : For-profit care and domestic work agencies in the Czech Republic
JF - Women's Studies International Forum
VL - 70
IS - September-October
SP - 53-61
EP - 53-61
PB - Elsevier
SN - 02775395
KW - Domestic work
KW - Care work
KW - Professionalization
KW - Czech Republic
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539518300815
L2 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539518300815
N2 - This article addresses the developing market of care and domestic work in the Czech Republic, a former socialist country. While the research on paid care and domestic work is growing, less attention has been paid to the patterns that emerge when the services are demanded and supplied by intermediary, bureaucratized, for-profit placement agencies. Although the delegation of tasks through agencies has many similarities with the situation outside the market, it is in other regards quite different, generating different questions and challenges. Drawing upon 20 qualitative interviews with the owners of for-profit care and domestic work placement agencies, we illuminate how bureaucratized paid care and domestic work is organized in the post-socialist Czech Republic. We focus on how the agency owners create professionalism and the ways that care and domestic work services are professionalized in the social, cultural, and historical context of the Czech Republic. Based on our research, the praxis of the care and domestic work placement agencies is more about the professionalization of the service than the professionalization of the work itself. This professionalization is achieved through processes of de-personalization and bureaucratization.
ER -
SOURALOVÁ, Adéla and Matouš JELÍNEK. Constructing professional services : For-profit care and domestic work agencies in the Czech Republic. \textit{Women's Studies International Forum}. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2018, vol.~70, September-October, p.~53-61. ISSN~0277-5395. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2018.08.002.
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