Doctoral Dissertation Research: Domestic Work Escalation in Europe

博士论文研究：欧洲家政工作的升级欧盟的有偿家政工作部门正在急剧增加，特别是在西班牙。该项目通过包括文献、调查和访谈数据在内的混合方法设计，解决了关于社会不平等的三个主要问题。首先，这项研究考察了公共政策辩论如何在欧盟和西班牙的性别平等和移民转移问题上框定了这一经济领域的变化。其次，这项研究调查了雇用有偿家政工人与家庭内有偿和无偿工作的性别划分之间的关系。最后，该项目分析了家庭工作报酬增加对家庭不平等随时间的变化所产生的社会影响。这项研究试图通过将家政工作部门的薪酬动态与性别、种族和阶级对分层的影响以及欧盟社会不平等意义的变化联系起来，做出理论和经验上的贡献。布罗德影响在世界各地类似情况下，有偿家政工作的升级。这项研究为理解这一经济部门对更广泛的不平等结构的影响提供了一个框架，可以用来与其他国家进行对比。目前的政策辩论，特别是在欧洲联盟一级的辩论，证明这一经济部门的增长是合理的，并提议使其专业化和正规化。这项研究旨在通过提供更多关于这类建议的实际影响的信息，并使基于性别、阶级和族裔公民身份的不平等不仅可以得到加强，而且可能得到加强的一些方式，为这次辩论提供信息。这一分析对于理解目前关于生育率、移徙和妇女就业的政策辩论的意义和影响也是至关重要的。这一结果可能会引起政策制定者、家政工人权利倡导者、女权主义组织和其他从事相关社会正义领域工作的组织的兴趣。

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: DOMESTIC WORK ESCALATION IN EUROPEABSTRACTThe paid domestic work sector is dramatically increasing in the EU, particularly in Spain. This project addresses three main questions about social inequality through a mixed methodology design that includes documental, survey and interview data. First, this research examines how public policy debates framed the change in this economic sector in relation to issues of gender equality and shifts in immigration across the EU and in Spain. Second, the study investigates the relationship between employing paid domestic workers and the gender division of paid and unpaid work within households. Finally, the project analyzes the societal-level implications of increases in paid domestic work for changes in inequality between families over time. This research seeks to make a theoretical and empirical contribution by connecting the dynamics of pay domestic work sector to changes in the effects of gender, ethnicity and class on stratification and the meaning of social inequality in the EU.Broader impacts The escalation of paid domestic work is taking place in different places around the world under similar circumstances. This study provides a framework to understand the implications of this economic sector for the broader structure of inequality, which could be used to contrast with other countries. Current policy debates, especially at the European Union level, legitimate the growth of this economic sector and propose to professionalize and formalize it. This research aims to inform this debate by providing more information about the actual implications of such proposals and making visible some of the ways in which inequalities based on gender, class and ethnicized citizenship may not only be reinforced but also possibly enhanced. This analysis is also crucial to understand the meanings and implications of current policy debates about fertility, migration and women's employment broadly understood. The results may be of interest to policy makers, domestic workers rights' advocates, feminist organizations and other organizations working on related social justice areas.