Care Work in Private Households. A Matter of Recognition. Social-ethical Analyses

这项研究项目是关于私人家庭中亲属、外来护理员(同居)或流动专业护理员的护理工作的结构状况，这些人大多是女性。尽管这三个群体之间存在具体差异，但他们的工作条件通常具有严重依赖、缺乏自主权和社会认可的特点。我们对性别敏感的社会伦理分析旨在澄清德国的家庭照料条件，并在阿克塞尔·霍内斯的理论方法启发下的认可理论框架内提供解释。在这一理论框架内，我们将分析护理员的工作和生活条件，特别是他们自主权的结构性限制和歧视经历。在此基础上，我们将参照私人家庭制定一套(暂定)面向认可的护理工作政策标准。这套标准将一方面通过一系列专家访谈，另一方面通过在研究文献的基础上对德国、法国、奥地利和荷兰的护理制度进行比较分析，进一步充实和完善。我们将调查护理工作的制度和经济条件如何唤起或延续这些福利国家缺乏承认的现象。这些项目旨在以社会科学和社会伦理研究为基础，阐述如何克服从事护理工作的人认识不足的战略，并就有助于改革护理政治的政治步骤提出建议，以及确定需要在社会一级启动的有利于承认护理工作的变革进程。因此，我们的项目对研究长寿社会中日益增长的护理需求的后果做出了社会伦理贡献。

This research project is about the structural conditions of care work in private households by rela-tives, migrant care-workers (live-ins) or ambulant professional care workers, all of them mostly women. Albeit there are specific differences between the three groups, their working conditions are typically characterised by grave dependencies, a lack of autonomy and social recognition. Our gender-sensitive social-ethical analysis aims at clarifying the conditions of home-care in Germany and at providing an interpretation within the framework of a recognition theory inspired by Axel Honneths theoretical approach. Within this theoretical framework we will analyse the care workers conditions of work and life with specific regard to the structural restrictions of their autonomy and to experiences of discrimination. Based on this we will develop a (tentative) set of criteria for recognition-oriented care work policy with reference to the private household. This set of criteria will be further enriched and refined on the one hand through a series of expert-interviews and on the other hand by means of a comparative analysis of the care regimes in Germany, France, Austria and the Netherlands, based on research-literature. We will investigate how the institutional and economic conditions of care-work evoke or perpetuate the lack of recognition in these welfare-states. The projects aims at elaborating strategies how to overcome the recognition deficit for those who do care work, based on social science and social ethics research, and at presenting suggestions for political steps that help reform the politics of care as well as identifying processes of change which need to be initiated on the societal level in favour of the recognition of care work. Thus our project makes a social-ethical contribution to the study of the consequences of the growing need of care in the long-life-society.