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"L'article propose une analyse de la structuration des relations professionnelles dans les services à la personne, au travers de la construction des champs conventionnels des branches (champs d'application des conventions collectives) et de leurs périmètres. Celle-ci est en effet porteuse d'enjeux forts pour les acteurs et pour la construction des emplois, qui sont à la fois d'ordres salarial, professionnel, économique et institutionnel. Sans retracer l'ensemble de l'histoire de la construction de ces branches, l'analyse est centrée sur les moments où leurs périmètres ont été questionnés, et où apparaissent alors plus clairement les critères structurants mobilisés pour justifier les périmètres existants – ou en promouvoir d'autres. Au terme de cette analyse, sont présentés un certain nombre d'enjeux que pose aux organisations syndicales la configuration actuelle des branches professionnelles dans ce champ."

"This article contributes to the debate on how collective agreements can enhance social security from the perspective of unpaid care work. It defines the risk of giving up employment in favour of unpaid care as a social security risk (the care risk). It analyses how collective agreements in the EU can address this risk without compromising gender equality. The analysis is conducted with a focus on analysing the risks emerging from European Union law on a regulatory practice yet to emerge: the inclusion of institutional (child) care provisions in collective agreements. The article concludes that it is disruptive for innovative collective bargaining strategies if interpreted from a standpoint focusing merely on economic integration."

"This study provides an in-depth analysis of the formal and informal long-term care workforce in the EU building on an extensive literature survey and data analysis. It looks at workforce characteristics, types and forms of (non-standard) employment, and working conditions. The study covers challenges in Member States related to the long-term care workforce and measures taken to address these. It ends with a discussion of policy options at national and EU level."

"Promoting the well-being of children and tackling child poverty are key goals of the new European Commission. This report analyses trends and disparities in the accessibility of services for children that must be addressed to achieve this. Moreover, given that staff play an integral role in determining the quality and accessibility of these services, this report describes the state of play of staff working conditions and training opportunities. Good working conditions and affordable high-quality services, such as early childhood education and care, also play a key role in encouraging labour market participation and increasing productivity."

"Workers who experience structural barriers in the labour market are overrepresented in the gig economy. There is limited research on how the broader context of labour markets and welfare systems shapes workers' motivations for, and subjective understandings of, ride-share work. Using established concepts of ‘constrained agency', ‘labour market objectives' and ‘life stories' from labour geography, this study develops a conceptual framework to advance subjective understandings of job quality. Drawing upon 59 interviews with workers from three distinct but overlapping disadvantaged groups (workers with disability, caring responsibilities and/or aged 45 and over), we focus on the experiences of and motivations for the work on a market-leading platform in Australia. Our findings highlight that subjective job quality perceptions are a complex mesh of individual circumstances and multi-layered social structures. Our framework helps to better understand why the work organisation and technology of the platform are valued by some yet loathed by others."

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"This article investigates the intersection between precarious work and precarious lives through interviews with workers in the care, hospitality and art sectors. These revealed that workers experienced precarity as a double-edged sword of time and income uncertainty shaped by the context in which they were embedded – namely their employment, their household and their relations with state welfare and care systems. These three domains shaped both the constraints they faced and the buffers and resources available to them as they managed these time and income uncertainties. A dynamic work–life articulation framework is developed that embeds the strategies workers deploy to mitigate uncertainty within these three domains and their intersections. These strategies may still only result in the least bad and often far from sustainable outcome due to changing contexts and trade-offs between time and income uncertainty."

This work is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

"Ausgehend von einer Analyse der Spezifika des Interessenhandelns bei interaktiver Sorge- und Bildungsarbeit sowie der juengsten strukturellen Veraenderungen des Kita-Bereichs wird das gewerkschaftliche Interessenhandeln im kommunalen Kita-Bereich fokussiert. Als dessen sichtbarster und entschiedenster Ausdruck der vergangenen Jahre wird der Kita-Streik von 2009 untersucht. Die Forderungen der Streikenden, die Arbeitsbedingungen und die Entlohnung zu verbessern, wurden nur in Ansaetzen erfuellt, positive Ergebnisse waren hingegen die Aktivierung und Politisierung der Beschaeftigten sowie die oeffentlich geaeusserte symbolische Anerkennung der Arbeit. Die Fortsetzung gewerkschaftlichen Interessenhandelns in den kommenden Jahren kann so auf einer – verglichen mit anderen sozialen Dienstleistungen – relativ starken gewerkschaftlichen Organisierung und Aktivierung aufbauen. Empirisch stuetzt sich die Analyse vor allem auf halb-strukturierte Interviews mit haupt- und ehrenamtlichen GewerkschafterInnen von ver.di und der GEW."

"Quand les femmes s'arrêtent, le monde s'arrête. Le slogan du mouvement Grève des femmes a désormais son alter ego : quand le monde s'arrête, les femmes continuent. En mars dernier, le monde a pu continuer de tourner grâce aux travailleuses qui à aucun moment n'ont déserté leur poste. La décision de la ministre De Block début mai 2020 de faire paraitre un arrêté royal prévoyant la réquisition du personnel de santé aurait pu passer pour une « maladresse » de plus si elle n'était révélatrice de la manière dont sont considérées les professions essentielles dans notre société et, de manière plus générale, de la valeur accordée au travail des femmes."