Editorial
Mathew Johnson, Valeria Pulignano
This thematic special issue of Transfer titled ‘Transforming care work within an era of changing priorities of care policy’ explores how policy, institutional and market-driven transformations of care regimes across Europe impact upon the quality of care services and the quality of care work. In this special issue, we bring together a range of national perspectives on changing models of care delivery and care work that spans Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK, complemented by a transnational analysis of EU health-care policy. Although each contribution situates the specific challenges of precariousness in a particular institutional and market context, by collating these seven perspectives we see common challenges emerging for care workers in diverse settings including residential, domiciliary and long-term care, public and private sectors, liberal and coordinated market economies, as well as southern, northern and eastern Europe with varied traditions of formal and informal familial care. Read more...
The full issue can be found → here
Co-editors: Philippe Pochet, Vera Šćepanović, Maarten Keune
Managing Editor: Marina Luttrell
Contents
- Editorial - Mathew Johnson and Valeria Pulignano
- Time for a paradigm change? Incorporating transnational processes into the analysis of the emerging European health-care system - Sabina Stan and Roland Erne
- ‘Intended’ and ‘unintended’ consequences of the privatisation of health and social care systems in Italy in light of the pandemic - Andrea Ciarini and Stefano Neri
- A matter of fragmentation? Challenges for collective bargaining and employment conditions in the Spanish long-term care sector - Núria Sánchez-Mira, Raquel Serrano Olivares, Pilar Carrasquer Oto
- Trade union struggle for workwear in Swedish elder care - Annette Thörnquist
- Established and emerging fields of workers’ struggles in the care sector: the case of Poland - Julia Kubisa, Katarzyna Rakowska
- Raising the bar? The impact of the UNISON ethical care campaign in UK domiciliary care - Mathew Johnson, Jill Rubery, Matthew Egan
- Running to stand still? Two decades of trade union activity in the Irish long-term care sector - Caroline Murphy, Michelle O’Sullivan
- News and Background: Applauded ‘nightingales’ voicing discontent. Exploring labour unrest in health and social care in Europe before and since the COVID-19 pandemic - Kurt Vandaele
- Review essay: Democracy and Prosperity - Martin Höpner