Children in paid care-giving work: Invisible receivers or active agents in caring relations?

Autor/in	Souralová, Adéla
Titel	Children in paid care-giving work: Invisible receivers or active agents in caring relations?
Quelle	In: Childhood, (2017) 4, S.438-452Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2); PDF als Volltext (3) Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0907-5682
DOI	10.1177/0907568217694420
Schlagwörter	Necessity; Caregivers; Incorporation; Domestic labour; Child care services; Caring; Work; Children; Child care; Children & youth
Abstract	Despite the growing sociological and anthropological literature on paid care-giving and domestic work, there continues to be a gap in the scholarship on delegated care work, namely, the invisibility of children as care-receivers. The article argues for the incorporation of children’s experiences, expectations and perceptions with paid care work. I review both empirical and theoretical work to shed light on what we know about children as care recipients based on current scholarship, which relies mainly on the perspectives of care-givers and care-managers. The aim is to emphasize the importance and necessity of looking at the children’s perspective. Throughout the article, I formulate several questions which should be asked and answered in future research which integrate the recipients’ perspective. I argue that addressing the perspective of these children is not just to add and stir in another perspective to the already-established framework of paid childcare. Rather, it leads us to re-think the grounds of research on care work, generating a new research agenda.
Erfasst von	OLC
Update	2023/3/07