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

该研究项目是关于亲属、移徙护理工作者（留宿）或流动专业护理工作者在私人家庭中从事护理工作的结构条件，所有这些护理工作者大多为妇女。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的依赖性，缺乏自主性和社会认可。我们的性别敏感的社会伦理分析的目的是澄清在德国的家庭护理的条件，并在一个承认理论的框架内提供一个解释启发阿克塞尔Honnets的理论方法。在这一理论框架内，我们将分析护理工作者的工作和生活条件，特别是对他们的自主权的结构性限制和歧视的经验。在此基础上，我们将参照私人家庭制定一套（暂定）面向家庭的护理工作政策标准。一方面将通过一系列专家访谈，另一方面将根据研究文献对德国、法国、奥地利和荷兰的护理制度进行比较分析，进一步丰富和完善这套标准。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认可。这些项目旨在根据社会科学和社会伦理研究，制定战略，以克服对从事护理工作的人的承认不足，并就有助于护理政策改革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，我们的项目作出了社会伦理的贡献，在长寿社会日益增长的需要照顾的后果的研究。

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.