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Outsourcing Domestic (Care) Work: The Politics, Policies, and Political Economy
- Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society
- Oxford University Press
- Volume 22, Number 2, Summer 2015
- pp. 133-146
- Article
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This article introduces the theme of the special issue on Outsourcing Domestic (Care) Work. We conceptualize “outsourcing of domestic work” as a process by which both the state and family increase their reliance on private markets to carry out both care and non-care domestic services. We argue that this outsourcing is happening in response to three “deficits” that many wealthy European countries face—“care deficit,” “time deficit”, and “job deficit.”