Brigitte Aulenbacher

Biographic Data

ID356015
NAMEBrigitte Aulenbacher
GIVEN NAMESBrigitte
FAMILY NAMEAulenbacher
SIGNATUREAULENBACHER B
AFFILIATIONSJohannes Kepler University of Linz
ORCID0000-0003-2281-1237
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS49
TOTAL CITATIONS54
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT15
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • In Times of the Market and Community Shift: On Live‐In Care and Caring Communities

    Open AccessBrigitte Aulenbacher, Klaus Wegleitner et al.ARTICLESocial Inclusion2026

    Under the auspices of neoliberalism, senior care provision is facing both a market and community shift. The respective shifts in societal care responsibilities are particularly evident in how care provision and arrangements are influenced by the state, market, family, and community. This article is conceptualised as a literature review, reflecting on and reinterpreting research results. It spotlights significant tendencies in the field of care an…

  • Facing transformative change? Care and housing in Europe

    Open AccessBrigitte Aulenbacher, Andreas Novy et al.ARTICLEBerliner Journal für Soziologie2025References: 6

  • Care and social reproduction in a careless world: A conversation on theoretical and transformative approaches

    Open AccessBrigitte Aulenbacher, Tine HaubnerARTICLEBerliner Journal für Soziologie2025References: 1

    The issues of care and social reproduction have drawn increasing attention for some time, and not only in the social sciences. Indeed, they are vital both for a sociological theoretical analysis of capitalist societies and for the debate about their political configuration. In sociological analyses of capitalist societies, however, there is a long tradition of controversy around the question of how to adequately analyse the current form, or mode …

  • Von Männerquartetten und Abgehängten: Ein Gespräch über Gender, Race, Class im Kapitalismus

    Open AccessBrigitte Aulenbacher, Tine HaubnerARTICLEFeministische Studien2025References: 1

    Wie Ungleichheiten nach Gender, Race, Class im Kapitalismus Gestalt annehmen, das ist das eine, wie Kapitalismus durch die drei Herrschaftsverhältnisse geprägt ist, das andere. In diesem Gespräch geht es um beides. Es bewegt sich entlang dreier Fragen: erstens, wie Gender, Race und Class im Kapitalismus zusammenwirken; zweitens, wie Ungleichheiten, Herrschaft und Kapitalismus in theoretischer Hinsicht zusammenhängen; und drittens, ob Gleichheit i…

  • A global migration industry in local contexts: Home care and domestic work brokerage in Austria and Sri Lanka

    Open AccessBrigitte Aulenbacher, Wasana Sampath Handapangoda et al.ARTICLEInternational Sociology2025Cited by: 3References: 9

    This article investigates the transnational marketization and corporatization of domestic services by brokers. Polanyian, institutional logics, and intersectional perspectives and findings on capitalism and violence provide a theoretical framework to understand brokerage as mode of service provision creating and shaping hybrid and unequal work and care arrangements. The Austrian context is a paradigmatic example for the European mode of senior ho…

  • Promise of Decent Care and the Problem of Poor Working Conditions. Double Movements Around Live-In Care In Austria

    Open AccessBrigitte Aulenbacher, Michael Leiblfinger et al.ARTICLEsozialpolitik ch2020

    Over the last decades, the marketization of live-in care for the elderly in Austria has been accompanied by new forms of regulation and the contestation surrounding this type of care provision. The article analyzes this process as a Polanyian double movement – the movement of a market-driven provision of care and organization of care work, and countermovements seeking protection from its effects – and asks to what extent the provision of decent c…

  • Capitalism in Transformation: Movements and Countermovements in the 21st Century

    Dorothee Bohle, Béla Greskovits et al.BOOKCapitalism in Transformation2019

    Presenting a profound and far-reaching analysis of economic, ecological, social, cultural and political developments of contemporary capitalism, this book draws on the work of Karl Polanyi, and re-reads it for our times. The renowned authors offer key insights to current changes in the relations between the economy, politics and society, and their ecological and social effects

  • Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, and Contemporary Capitalism

    Open AccessBrigitte Aulenbacher, Richard Bärnthaler et al.ARTICLEÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für…2019Cited by: 7References: 5

  • Rationalisierung und der Wandel von Erwerbsarbeit aus der Genderperspektive

    Open AccessBrigitte AulenbacherCHAPTERHandbuch Arbeitssoziologie2018

  • Care und Care Work – Eine neue Stufe ihrer Vergesellschaftung

    Brigitte AulenbacherARTICLEFeministische Studien2018

  • The crisis in Greece: Questions of Economy, State and Democracy

    Open AccessMaria Markantonatou, Brigitte Aulenbacher et al.ARTICLEEqual Opportunities International2018References: 2

  • Capitalism goes care: Elder and child care between market, state, profession, and family and questions of justice and inequality

    Open AccessBrigitte Aulenbacher, Fabienne Décieux et al.ARTICLEEqual Opportunities International2018Cited by: 4References: 14

    Purpose The starting point of the paper is the meteoric rise of care and care work upon the societal and sociological agenda. Referring to Polanyi, the authors argue that this is the manifestation of a new phase of capitalist societalisation ( Vergesellschaftung ) of social reproduction in the form of an economic shift. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the societal organisation of care and care work and questions of inequality and justice.…

  • Care Revolution

    Open AccessGabriele Winker, Brigitte Aulenbacher et al.ARTICLEEqual Opportunities International2018

    Purpose The purpose of the text is to inform about Care Revolution, a new social movement in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, which reacts to the crisis of social reproduction and is involved in the struggles for needs-oriented care. Design/methodology/approach In the form of an interview the author speaks about the background, the basic concepts, practices and perspectives of this social movement. Findings At the core of Care Revolution ́s poli…

  • Between dystopias and alternative ideas of caring

    Open AccessBrigitte Aulenbacher, Birgit RiegrafARTICLEEqual Opportunities International2018References: 2

  • The economic shift and beyond: Care as a contested terrain in contemporary capitalism

    Open AccessBrigitte Aulenbacher, Fabienne Décieux et al.ARTICLECurrent Sociology2018Cited by: 5References: 20

    This article argues that we are witnessing a fundamental transformation of capitalism. Under the auspices of an economic shift, social reproduction and constituent care and care work are undergoing a process of reorganization. The first part draws on Karl Polanyi's analysis of the relation between market and society and on contemporary revisions of his approach. Referring to core arguments from his perspective on the market society it identifies …

  • Introduction: Towards a global sociology of care and care work

    Open AccessBrigitte Aulenbacher, Hartmut Lutz et al.ARTICLECurrent Sociology2018Cited by: 5References: 11

    Although care and care work have always formed a theme of fundamental social significance, neither has had much social recognition nor sociological attention commensurate with this importance. In this Current Sociology monograph we want to move the discussion forward towards a global sociology of care and care work. The contributions focus on both theoretical and empirical studies about care relations and their global interrelations. To shed ligh…

  • Violence against Women as an Issue of Human Rights, Justice and Democracy – An Interview with Margaret Abraham

    Brigitte Aulenbacher, Birgit RiegrafARTICLEFeministische Studien2016Cited by: 1

    Article Violence against Women as an Issue of Human Rights, Justice and Democracy – An Interview with Margaret Abraham was published on November 1, 2016 in the journal Feministische Studien (volume 34, issue 2)

  • Zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit: Zur Ganzheitlichkeit und Rationalisierung des Sorgens und der Sorgearbeit

    Open AccessBrigitte Aulenbacher, Maria DammayrCHAPTERSorge2014

    Care and care work have, in respect of their crisis, become prominent issues in society and sociology. Revisiting international perspectives of research and diagnosing and explaining the causes of the contemporary development the special issue of the Soziale Welt remaps the field and faces new challenges for sociology

  • Sorge: Arbeit, Verhältnisse, Regime

    Brigitte Aulenbacher, Birgit Riegraf et al.BOOKSorge2014

  • People like us: Experiencing Difference in the Working Life of Immigrant Women

    Open AccessHuriye Aygören, Monika Wilińska et al.ARTICLEEqual Opportunities International2013References: 59

    Purpose The main aim of this article is to research the lived experience of difference. In this article, the authors are interested in the field of working life in the context of entrepreneurship among Turkish women in Sweden. Design/methodology/approach The article is based on the stories of two immigrant women entrepreneurs who reflect upon their experience of working life in the context of migration to Sweden. These two stories provide a groun…

  • Gender, diversity and migration – challenges to Nordic welfare, gender politics and research

    Open AccessBirte Siim, Brigitte AulenbacherARTICLEEqual Opportunities International2013Cited by: 2References: 27

    Purpose The aim of the article is to discuss the challenges from immigration to Nordic (gender) politics, theories and research. The research question is to what extent Nordic welfare and gender equality politics is based on exclusive solidarity biased towards the native majorities. A key issue is how Nordic gender theory and research has addressed multiple inequalities. The article briefly revisits the academic debates about gender equality, div…

  • Making the difference – critical perspectives on the configuration of work, diversity and inequalities

    Open AccessBrigitte Aulenbacher, Cacilia Innreiter-MoserARTICLEEqual Opportunities International2013

  • Rethinking differences and inequality at the age of globalization: A case study of white immigrant domestic workers in the global city of Chicago

    Open AccessShu‐ju Ada Cheng, Brigitte AulenbacherARTICLEEqual Opportunities International2013Cited by: 3References: 9

    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use the case of white immigrant women domestics’ experiences in migration to demonstrate that their work experiences are different due to their whiteness. While their racial identity provides them with white privileges, they still face discrimination based on their occupational and immigrant statuses. The case study adds to existing literature on domestic service. Design/methodology/approach The case study …

  • Working hard with gender: Gendered labour for women in male dominated occupations of manual trades and information technology (IT)

    Open AccessLouisa Smith, Brigitte AulenbacherARTICLEEqual Opportunities International2013Cited by: 7References: 24

    Purpose Manual trades and information technology (IT) are male‐dominated occupations and as such cultivate unique forms of hegemonic masculinity. Women entering these occupations represent a kind of crisis to this gender order in the workplace, making the experiences of these women a useful way of studying how gender regimes are maintained and may be challenged at work. The aim of this paper is to examine how women found doing gender in the male …

  • New maids – new butlers? Polish domestic workers in Germany and commodification of social reproductive work

    Open AccessEwa Palenga-Möllenbeck, Ewa Palenga‐möllenbeck et al.ARTICLEEqual Opportunities International2013Cited by: 3References: 33

    Purpose In the last decades, migration of domestic workers and, in particular, care workers has grown into a significant part of movement from the global South to the global North. This phenomenon is referred to as the “new international division in social reproductive work” – outsourcing domestic chores to (mostly) migrants enables families in the global North to escape from the tensions arising from balancing productive and social reproductive …