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Biograf 2018/67
On the ambivalency of the world without written rules: Negotiating intimacy and formal rules in paid domestic work and care in Slovakia
On the ambivalency of the world without written rules: Negotiating intimacy and formal rules in paid domestic work and care in Slovakia
The text reviews the book by Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková Doing Cleaning and Providing Childcare: Paid Domestic Work in Slovakia, published in 2017 in MUNIPRESS, Brno. The book focuses on the demand for paid domestic workers in Slovakia and situates the employment of paid domestic workers (nannies, babysitters and cleaners) in Slovakia within the dominant conceptual frameworks used for interpreting paid domestic work.
Review:
SEKERÁKOVÁ BÚRIKOVÁ , Z. (2017): Panie k deťom a na upratovanie: Podoby platenej práce v domácnosti. Brno: Masarykova univerzita. 156 str. ISBN 9788021087620Citation:
TÍŽIK, M. (2018): O ambivalencii sveta bez písaných pravidiel: Vyjednávanie intímnosti a formálnosti pri nájomných domácich prácach a starostlivosti na Slovensku [On the ambivalency of the world without written rules: Negotiating intimacy and formal rules in paid domestic work and care in Slovakia]. Biograf, 67-68: . Available at http://www.biograf.org/clanek.html?id=1039 [last access12. 12. 2019][discussion in Czech or Slovak] [full text in Czech or Slovak - only for subscribers