The purpose of this article is to show how low wages in home care services, where jobs are considered “low skilled”, are due to a set of mechanisms resulting from a socio-political and socio-economic construction. These mechanisms are due to both public and private strategies that we seek to clarify, on the basis of a synthesis of empirical work on the field of personal services. Three mechanisms for the non-recognition of these occupations have been identified, each of which is present both in national policy orientations and in employers’ human resources strategies. It appears that the home help sector illustrates trends present in many other highly feminised service activities (such as cleaning, hotel and catering or retail).Cet article ...
The logic of job-hunting, between professional and domestic activities. This article is devoted to ...
International audienceThis article focuses on the definitions of working time in the context of jobs...
International audienceThe work of directly employed home helpers is a form of salaried employment wh...
The purpose of this article is to show how low wages in home care services, where jobs are considere...
Article published in French in Travail et emploi, n° 155-156, 2018The purpose of this article is to ...
The purpose of this article is to show how low wages in home help services, a sector where jobs are ...
International audienceThe employment quality in the sector of home care services raises a number of ...
In view of the aging population, jobs related to home care assistance for the elderly are considered...
The article examines how the new public management has transformed the organizations and actors of h...
National audienceThe new public policies in favor of the development of the domestic services sector...
Home helping sector undergoes recruiting difficulties as well as an issue of loyalty among the emplo...
For 20 years, the eldercare policy has largely favored home care. Public policies have sought to sub...
Personal services have been at the heart of employment policies in France for more than twenty years...
International audienceHome-based service jobs have developed considerably across Western societies. ...
Public policy elderly care policy has changed several times since the 1980s, varying from social and...
The logic of job-hunting, between professional and domestic activities. This article is devoted to ...
International audienceThis article focuses on the definitions of working time in the context of jobs...
International audienceThe work of directly employed home helpers is a form of salaried employment wh...
The purpose of this article is to show how low wages in home care services, where jobs are considere...
Article published in French in Travail et emploi, n° 155-156, 2018The purpose of this article is to ...
The purpose of this article is to show how low wages in home help services, a sector where jobs are ...
International audienceThe employment quality in the sector of home care services raises a number of ...
In view of the aging population, jobs related to home care assistance for the elderly are considered...
The article examines how the new public management has transformed the organizations and actors of h...
National audienceThe new public policies in favor of the development of the domestic services sector...
Home helping sector undergoes recruiting difficulties as well as an issue of loyalty among the emplo...
For 20 years, the eldercare policy has largely favored home care. Public policies have sought to sub...
Personal services have been at the heart of employment policies in France for more than twenty years...
International audienceHome-based service jobs have developed considerably across Western societies. ...
Public policy elderly care policy has changed several times since the 1980s, varying from social and...
The logic of job-hunting, between professional and domestic activities. This article is devoted to ...
International audienceThis article focuses on the definitions of working time in the context of jobs...
International audienceThe work of directly employed home helpers is a form of salaried employment wh...