Abstract

GORBAN, Débora. Social representations in dispute: domestic workers selection process among middle class families in Buenos Aires. Trab. soc. [online]. 2015, n.25, pp.5-21. ISSN 1514-6871.

In this article we propose to analyse the different recruitment practices of nannies, and the logic and different criteria that are deployed in the selection process of the latter, between middle class and upper middle families of Buenos Aires City. We will also focus on the analysis of these logics and criteria through care work recruitment agencies. The study of these practices will allow us to observe, on the one hand, which are the expectations or what the families expect at the moment of the beginning of the labour relationship with the care worker and at the same time, the fears that these relationship suppose for the families. On the other hand this will allow us to study the representations among those who hire care labour and those who care.

Keywords : Women; Labour; Representations; Care; Domestic service.

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