Domestic work in France and Italy
Comparative case studies on the contemporary diffusion of informal employment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21189760 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisabetta Pernigotti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author), Elisabetta Pernigotti Elisabetta Pernigotti |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Organisation Labour & Globalisation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-641X • E-ISSN: 1745-6428 |
| Publisher | Pluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.6.1.0049 |
| OpenAlex | W2753128293 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
The persistence of informal employment and its recent development in Western countries is often disregarded. This article argues that a gendered renewal of informal employment is taking place following global economic restructuring. Furthermore, it shows how informality might be recreated through the very policy initiatives that aimed at combating informality and structuring the highly feminised sector of care and domestic services. In spite of the differences in policy initiatives, qualitative analysis illustrates how the formalisation of these jobs remains partial, in France as in Italy, regardless of the absence or the presence of specific politics of regularisation. Industrial unemployment due to rural deindustrialisation is imposing on working-class women — formerly largely employed in factories — a new form of domesticity through a certain recognition of domestic and care work, between formality, ‘grey work’ and informality, which confines these same women to a universe that is family-based and precarious
Care work · Economic growth · Economic restructuring · Economics · Formality · Informal sector · Labour economics · Political science · Precarious work · Restructuring · Sociology · Unemployment · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Social Sciences and Governance
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |