Marta Szebehely
Biographic Data
| ID | 381293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta Szebehely |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta |
| FAMILY NAME | Szebehely |
| SIGNATURE | SZEBEHELY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6956-7329 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 394 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Care work in different arenas
Care work is shaped by the context in which it is carried out. This study explored the context, content, conditions and consequences of work in two fields of social care in Sweden: eldercare and disability services. Policy documents and statistical sources were used to analyse the context. Job content, working conditions and consequences of work were analysed using survey data collected in 2015 and 2017 in eldercare and disability services ( N = …
Working conditions in the long‐term care sector
Increased demand for long-term care (LTC) services alongside precarious working conditions has resulted in labour shortages in the LTC sector, which has led to an increasing share of workers of migrant origin filling these jobs. Previous research on migrant care workers has also highlighted the seeming gap in working conditions relative to native workers. However, lack of disaggregated data on migrant and native care workers, alongside single-cas…
The politics of profit in Swedish welfare services
The Social Democratic architects of the Swedish welfare state considered public provision as well as public funding of welfare services essential to realising their egalitarian ambitions. However, since the early 1990s, a highly concentrated, for-profit sector has emerged in welfare service provision. We analyse how the Swedish Social Democrats have discussed privatisation and the profit motive in welfare services from the 1980s to the present. W…
Changing Divisions of Care-work
This chapter discusses changes in the Swedish care services for the very old and the very young. It focuses on similarities and differences between the two services, and also discusses whether it is relevant to speak of one single Swedish welfare regime of social care services, or whether there is rather an 'old-age care regime' and a 'childcare regime'. Social expenditure as a percentage of GDP is high in Scandinavia and, according to most sourc…
Fieldnotes
This chapter discusses the taking, writing up, and analyzing of fieldnotes as part of the rapid ethnographic methodology. It describes the preparatory process the team members went through to learn how to conduct observations, and the guiding documents/principles used by the research team throughout the site visits. We explain how observations were carried out and how fieldnotes were captured in our project, comparing this process to that of trad…
Nordic eldercare – weak universalism becoming weaker?
Working longer, caring harder – the impact of ‘ageing-in-place’ policies on working carers in the UK and Sweden
Most developed countries have introduced significant changes in housing and longterm care policies for older people. Simultaneously, there is increasing policy and economic emphasis on extending wo
Marketisation policies in different contexts
Market‐oriented restructurings of long‐term care policies contribute significantly to the aggravation of care workers’ situations. This article focuses on the effects of broader long‐term care policy developments on market‐oriented reforms. Germany, Japan and Sweden are three countries that have introduced market‐oriented reforms into home‐based care provision embedded in distinct long‐term care policy developments. Conceptually, this article dra…
Nordic eldercare – Weak universalism becoming weaker
This article builds on recent research on the fortunes of universalism in European social policy by tracing the development of eldercare policy in four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Six dimensions of universalism are used to assess whether and how eldercare has been universalized or de-universalized in each country in recent decades and the consequences of the trends thereby identified. We find that de-universalization ha…
Privat och offentlig äldreomsorg - svenska omsorgsarbetares syn på arbetsmiljö och politisk styrning
Denna artikel presenterar resultat från en stor enkätundersökning som jämför arbetsmiljön inom privat och offentligt bedriven äldreomsorg. Varken de förhoppningar eller farhågor som uttalades när entreprenadiseringen inleddes för drygt tio år sedan bekräftas. Däremot visar det sig att entreprenadiseringen förändrar innebörden i omsorgsarbetarnas relationer till kommunens politiker.
How institutions matter for job characteristics, quality and experiences
This article seeks to understand a puzzling finding: that workers in publicly funded home care for older people in Australia, compared to those in Sweden, feel that they are better able to meet their clients' needs, that their workplaces are less pressed, and that their work is less burdensome and more compatible with their family and social commitments. This finding seems to challenge expectations fostered by comparative sociological research th…
From the state to the family or to the market? Consequences of reduced residential eldercare in S weden
This article analyses the changing roles of the state, family and market in providing care for older people in S weden, in relation to S candinavian welfare ideals of universalism and de‐familisation. Since 2000 every fourth residential care bed has disappeared and the increase in homecare services has not compensated for the decline. Instead family care (defined here as help from adult children and other non‐cohabiting family or friends) has inc…
It is a scandal
Purpose – This study aims to explore the causes and consequences of media scandals involving nursing homes for older persons in Canada, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a descriptive case-study methodology which provides an in-depth, focused, qualitative analysis of one selected nursing home scandal in each jurisdiction. Scandals were selected on the basis of being substantive enough to potentially…
Combining Paid Work and Family Care
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and …
Family rediscovered? Working carers of older people in Finland and Sweden
The chapter addresses the characteristics and situations of working carers of older people in Finland and Sweden. It draws together knowledge on employment legislation, public policy and payments to working carers with studies on family care of older people. The central questions addressed are: Who are the carers? What kind of support is available for them? Are their working lives affected by caring responsibilities? And how do they perceive thei…
Informal eldercare and care for disabled children in the Nordic countries
In an international comparison, the Nordic countries are generous care spenders and a relatively large proportion of the populations receive formal care services. However, in respect of service provision, the Nordic countries are less similar today than they were some decades ago. Using survey data from three Nordic countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, we first document the differences in informal care between the countries, and then we assess…
Changing policies, changing patterns of care
A Caring State for all Older People?
The Nordic Welfare states are frequently designated with labels like ‘social service states’ (Anttonen 1990) or ‘caring states’ (Leira 1994 ) as they offer a wide variety of services, including care services for children and elderly, to citizens of all socioeconomic groups. In this chapter, attention will be directed toward the Nordic home care service, a service which is often regarded an icon of the caring states. Home care is neither the most …
The marketisation of care
The use of markets and market mechanisms to deliver care services is growing in both liberal and social democratic welfare states. This article examines debates and policies concerning the marketisation of eldercare and childcare in Sweden, England and Australia. It shows how market discourses and practices intersect with, reinforce or challenge traditions and existing policies and examines whether care markets deliver user empowerment and greate…
Structural violence in long-term, residential care for older people
Equality in the social service state
This chapter examines what effects different childcare models — and changes therein — have for gender and class equality, as well as between different ethnic groups. The analysis focuses on childcare services and financial benefits, especially care allowances offered in lieu of a publicly funded childcare place. The chapter finds that home care allowances may reinforce traditional gendered divisions of labour, under-use of childcare services and …
Unheard voices, unmapped terrain
This article aims to contribute to comparative welfare state research by analysing the everyday work life of long-term care facility workers in Canada and Sweden. The study's empirical base was a survey of fixed and open-ended questions; this article presents results from a subset of respondents (Care Aides and Assistant Nurses) working in facilities in three Canadian provinces ( n =557) and across Sweden ( n =292). The workers' experiences were …
Home care for older people in Sweden
One aspect of universalism in Swedish eldercare services is that publicly financed and publicly provided services have been both affordable for the poor and attractive enough to be preferred by the middle class. This article identifies two trends in home care for older people in Sweden: a decline in the coverage of publicly funded services and their increasing marketisation. We explore the mechanisms behind these trends by reviewing policy docume…
Äldreomsorgsforskning i Norden
I alla de nordiska länderna utgör den offentliga äldreomsorgen en del av välfärdsstaten som påtagligt många människor har personlig erfarenhet av - som hjälpmottagare, anhöriga eller anställda omsorgsarbetare. Den omfattande, viktiga och varierade verksamhet som omsorg om gamla människor utgör står i fokus för denna bok. Framstående nordiska forskare sammanfattar och analyserar den nordiska forskningen om äldreomsorg i vid mening: omsorg utförd a…
Welfare trends in Sweden
Welfare trends in Sweden: balancing the books for the 1990s : Journal of European Social Policy
The marketisation of care
The use of markets and market mechanisms to deliver care services is growing in both liberal and social democratic welfare states. This article examines debates and policies concerning the marketisation of eldercare and childcare in Sweden, England and Australia. It shows how market discourses and practices intersect with, reinforce or challenge traditions and existing policies and examines whether care markets deliver user empowerment and greate…
Home care for older people in Sweden
One aspect of universalism in Swedish eldercare services is that publicly financed and publicly provided services have been both affordable for the poor and attractive enough to be preferred by the middle class. This article identifies two trends in home care for older people in Sweden: a decline in the coverage of publicly funded services and their increasing marketisation. We explore the mechanisms behind these trends by reviewing policy docume…
Nordic eldercare – Weak universalism becoming weaker
This article builds on recent research on the fortunes of universalism in European social policy by tracing the development of eldercare policy in four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Six dimensions of universalism are used to assess whether and how eldercare has been universalized or de-universalized in each country in recent decades and the consequences of the trends thereby identified. We find that de-universalization ha…
Structural violence in long-term, residential care for older people
From the state to the family or to the market? Consequences of reduced residential eldercare in S weden
This article analyses the changing roles of the state, family and market in providing care for older people in S weden, in relation to S candinavian welfare ideals of universalism and de‐familisation. Since 2000 every fourth residential care bed has disappeared and the increase in homecare services has not compensated for the decline. Instead family care (defined here as help from adult children and other non‐cohabiting family or friends) has inc…
How institutions matter for job characteristics, quality and experiences
This article seeks to understand a puzzling finding: that workers in publicly funded home care for older people in Australia, compared to those in Sweden, feel that they are better able to meet their clients' needs, that their workplaces are less pressed, and that their work is less burdensome and more compatible with their family and social commitments. This finding seems to challenge expectations fostered by comparative sociological research th…
Welfare trends in Sweden
Welfare trends in Sweden: balancing the books for the 1990s : Journal of European Social Policy
Marketisation policies in different contexts
Market‐oriented restructurings of long‐term care policies contribute significantly to the aggravation of care workers’ situations. This article focuses on the effects of broader long‐term care policy developments on market‐oriented reforms. Germany, Japan and Sweden are three countries that have introduced market‐oriented reforms into home‐based care provision embedded in distinct long‐term care policy developments. Conceptually, this article dra…
It is a scandal
Purpose – This study aims to explore the causes and consequences of media scandals involving nursing homes for older persons in Canada, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a descriptive case-study methodology which provides an in-depth, focused, qualitative analysis of one selected nursing home scandal in each jurisdiction. Scandals were selected on the basis of being substantive enough to potentially…
Unheard voices, unmapped terrain
This article aims to contribute to comparative welfare state research by analysing the everyday work life of long-term care facility workers in Canada and Sweden. The study's empirical base was a survey of fixed and open-ended questions; this article presents results from a subset of respondents (Care Aides and Assistant Nurses) working in facilities in three Canadian provinces ( n =557) and across Sweden ( n =292). The workers' experiences were …
The politics of profit in Swedish welfare services
The Social Democratic architects of the Swedish welfare state considered public provision as well as public funding of welfare services essential to realising their egalitarian ambitions. However, since the early 1990s, a highly concentrated, for-profit sector has emerged in welfare service provision. We analyse how the Swedish Social Democrats have discussed privatisation and the profit motive in welfare services from the 1980s to the present. W…
Informal eldercare and care for disabled children in the Nordic countries
In an international comparison, the Nordic countries are generous care spenders and a relatively large proportion of the populations receive formal care services. However, in respect of service provision, the Nordic countries are less similar today than they were some decades ago. Using survey data from three Nordic countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, we first document the differences in informal care between the countries, and then we assess…
Support in old age in the changing society of Bangladesh
The assumption that social and economic transitions in a country pose a threat to the provision of support to older people is questioned in this study. The study investigates the availability and sources of such material, practical and emotional support in urban and rural areas of Bangladesh. The support provided by older people towards household functioning is also explored. It was found from an interview survey of 701 individuals aged 60 years …
Aging trends -- Making an invisible population visible
Working conditions in the long‐term care sector
Increased demand for long-term care (LTC) services alongside precarious working conditions has resulted in labour shortages in the LTC sector, which has led to an increasing share of workers of migrant origin filling these jobs. Previous research on migrant care workers has also highlighted the seeming gap in working conditions relative to native workers. However, lack of disaggregated data on migrant and native care workers, alongside single-cas…
Working longer, caring harder – the impact of ‘ageing-in-place’ policies on working carers in the UK and Sweden
Most developed countries have introduced significant changes in housing and longterm care policies for older people. Simultaneously, there is increasing policy and economic emphasis on extending wo
Omsorgsarbetets olika former
Changing forms of care work: New class distinctions and old gender patterns in care for the elderlyComparative welfare state research has only recently broadened the sphere of interest from income transfers to include social care services as well; i.e., to consider the welfare state not only as a social insurance state but also as a social service state. In the article a typology of care work is suggested and used as a tool to analyse changes in …
Influence of Sociocultural and Structural Factors on Functional Ability
The underlying assumption of ADL and IADL instruments that an individual will perform an activity given physical or cognitive ability is questioned. It is suggested that sociocultural and structural factors are strong determinants of task performance
Aging trends -- Making an invisible population visible
Omsorgsarbetets olika former
Changing forms of care work: New class distinctions and old gender patterns in care for the elderlyComparative welfare state research has only recently broadened the sphere of interest from income transfers to include social care services as well; i.e., to consider the welfare state not only as a social insurance state but also as a social service state. In the article a typology of care work is suggested and used as a tool to analyse changes in …
Influence of Sociocultural and Structural Factors on Functional Ability
The underlying assumption of ADL and IADL instruments that an individual will perform an activity given physical or cognitive ability is questioned. It is suggested that sociocultural and structural factors are strong determinants of task performance
Welfare trends in Sweden
Welfare trends in Sweden: balancing the books for the 1990s : Journal of European Social Policy
Support in old age in the changing society of Bangladesh
The assumption that social and economic transitions in a country pose a threat to the provision of support to older people is questioned in this study. The study investigates the availability and sources of such material, practical and emotional support in urban and rural areas of Bangladesh. The support provided by older people towards household functioning is also explored. It was found from an interview survey of 701 individuals aged 60 years …
Äldreomsorgsforskning i Norden
I alla de nordiska länderna utgör den offentliga äldreomsorgen en del av välfärdsstaten som påtagligt många människor har personlig erfarenhet av - som hjälpmottagare, anhöriga eller anställda omsorgsarbetare. Den omfattande, viktiga och varierade verksamhet som omsorg om gamla människor utgör står i fokus för denna bok. Framstående nordiska forskare sammanfattar och analyserar den nordiska forskningen om äldreomsorg i vid mening: omsorg utförd a…
Equality in the social service state
This chapter examines what effects different childcare models — and changes therein — have for gender and class equality, as well as between different ethnic groups. The analysis focuses on childcare services and financial benefits, especially care allowances offered in lieu of a publicly funded childcare place. The chapter finds that home care allowances may reinforce traditional gendered divisions of labour, under-use of childcare services and …
Unheard voices, unmapped terrain
This article aims to contribute to comparative welfare state research by analysing the everyday work life of long-term care facility workers in Canada and Sweden. The study's empirical base was a survey of fixed and open-ended questions; this article presents results from a subset of respondents (Care Aides and Assistant Nurses) working in facilities in three Canadian provinces ( n =557) and across Sweden ( n =292). The workers' experiences were …
Home care for older people in Sweden
One aspect of universalism in Swedish eldercare services is that publicly financed and publicly provided services have been both affordable for the poor and attractive enough to be preferred by the middle class. This article identifies two trends in home care for older people in Sweden: a decline in the coverage of publicly funded services and their increasing marketisation. We explore the mechanisms behind these trends by reviewing policy docume…
Changing policies, changing patterns of care
A Caring State for all Older People?
The Nordic Welfare states are frequently designated with labels like ‘social service states’ (Anttonen 1990) or ‘caring states’ (Leira 1994 ) as they offer a wide variety of services, including care services for children and elderly, to citizens of all socioeconomic groups. In this chapter, attention will be directed toward the Nordic home care service, a service which is often regarded an icon of the caring states. Home care is neither the most …
The marketisation of care
The use of markets and market mechanisms to deliver care services is growing in both liberal and social democratic welfare states. This article examines debates and policies concerning the marketisation of eldercare and childcare in Sweden, England and Australia. It shows how market discourses and practices intersect with, reinforce or challenge traditions and existing policies and examines whether care markets deliver user empowerment and greate…
Structural violence in long-term, residential care for older people
Combining Paid Work and Family Care
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and …
Family rediscovered? Working carers of older people in Finland and Sweden
The chapter addresses the characteristics and situations of working carers of older people in Finland and Sweden. It draws together knowledge on employment legislation, public policy and payments to working carers with studies on family care of older people. The central questions addressed are: Who are the carers? What kind of support is available for them? Are their working lives affected by caring responsibilities? And how do they perceive thei…
Informal eldercare and care for disabled children in the Nordic countries
In an international comparison, the Nordic countries are generous care spenders and a relatively large proportion of the populations receive formal care services. However, in respect of service provision, the Nordic countries are less similar today than they were some decades ago. Using survey data from three Nordic countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, we first document the differences in informal care between the countries, and then we assess…
From the state to the family or to the market? Consequences of reduced residential eldercare in S weden
This article analyses the changing roles of the state, family and market in providing care for older people in S weden, in relation to S candinavian welfare ideals of universalism and de‐familisation. Since 2000 every fourth residential care bed has disappeared and the increase in homecare services has not compensated for the decline. Instead family care (defined here as help from adult children and other non‐cohabiting family or friends) has inc…
It is a scandal
Purpose – This study aims to explore the causes and consequences of media scandals involving nursing homes for older persons in Canada, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a descriptive case-study methodology which provides an in-depth, focused, qualitative analysis of one selected nursing home scandal in each jurisdiction. Scandals were selected on the basis of being substantive enough to potentially…
Privat och offentlig äldreomsorg - svenska omsorgsarbetares syn på arbetsmiljö och politisk styrning
Denna artikel presenterar resultat från en stor enkätundersökning som jämför arbetsmiljön inom privat och offentligt bedriven äldreomsorg. Varken de förhoppningar eller farhågor som uttalades när entreprenadiseringen inleddes för drygt tio år sedan bekräftas. Däremot visar det sig att entreprenadiseringen förändrar innebörden i omsorgsarbetarnas relationer till kommunens politiker.
How institutions matter for job characteristics, quality and experiences
This article seeks to understand a puzzling finding: that workers in publicly funded home care for older people in Australia, compared to those in Sweden, feel that they are better able to meet their clients' needs, that their workplaces are less pressed, and that their work is less burdensome and more compatible with their family and social commitments. This finding seems to challenge expectations fostered by comparative sociological research th…
Nordic eldercare – weak universalism becoming weaker?
Working longer, caring harder – the impact of ‘ageing-in-place’ policies on working carers in the UK and Sweden
Most developed countries have introduced significant changes in housing and longterm care policies for older people. Simultaneously, there is increasing policy and economic emphasis on extending wo
Marketisation policies in different contexts
Market‐oriented restructurings of long‐term care policies contribute significantly to the aggravation of care workers’ situations. This article focuses on the effects of broader long‐term care policy developments on market‐oriented reforms. Germany, Japan and Sweden are three countries that have introduced market‐oriented reforms into home‐based care provision embedded in distinct long‐term care policy developments. Conceptually, this article dra…
Nordic eldercare – Weak universalism becoming weaker
This article builds on recent research on the fortunes of universalism in European social policy by tracing the development of eldercare policy in four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Six dimensions of universalism are used to assess whether and how eldercare has been universalized or de-universalized in each country in recent decades and the consequences of the trends thereby identified. We find that de-universalization ha…
Changing Divisions of Care-work
This chapter discusses changes in the Swedish care services for the very old and the very young. It focuses on similarities and differences between the two services, and also discusses whether it is relevant to speak of one single Swedish welfare regime of social care services, or whether there is rather an 'old-age care regime' and a 'childcare regime'. Social expenditure as a percentage of GDP is high in Scandinavia and, according to most sourc…
Social Policy and Reform Studies (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Economics (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Nursing (9 works)