Introduction - Senior home care for sale: agency-brokered transnational live-in care in Europe - Brigitte Aulenbacher, Helma Lutz, Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, Karin Schwiter
Part I: Care markets, care provision, working conditions, and the role of brokering agencies
Divided Europe? The role of home care agencies from Poland, and how the ideal of decent work gets lost along transnational value chains - Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck
Business preferences in long-term care: the case of live-in home care in Ireland - Julien Mercille
The effectiveness of informal care-work brokering in Italy - Martina Cvajner
Diversification of the senior home care market in Hungary: informality and the operational modes of intermediaries - Dóra Gábriel and Noémi Katona
The 'good agency'? On the interplay of formalization and informality in the contested marketization of live-in care in Austria - Brigitte Aulenbacher and Veronika Prieler
Part II: Transnationality, mobilities, border regimes and global care chains
Multiple interacting migration patterns in senior care on Europe's semi-periphery - Majda Hrženjak and Maja Breznik
Distorted Emancipation and the Transnational Political Economy of Social Reproduction - Zuzana Uhde
'Care Bonds' in Times of COVID-19 - Petra Ezzeddine
Transnational migration and brokering agencies in the home care sector in Spain - Raquel Martínez-Buján, Paloma Moré
Part III: Worlds apart: the household as a workplace
'As I always say, you really need to tame them!' The working conditions of migrant senior care workers employed by brokering agencies in Belgium - Chiara Giordano
Brokering agencies as managers of conflicts and emotions in live-in senior care - Lucia Amorosi
Shaping working hours in the shadow of the law? Experiences of live-in migrant care workers, brokering agencies and family care managers in the Netherlands - María Bruquetas-Callejo
Shaping the social and work-related well-being of migrant live-in carers: the ambiguous role of labour market intermediaries in England - Shereen Hussein, Agnes Turnpenny and Caroline Emberson
At home with the employer? - Contradictory notions of the care client's home as a workplace and living space - Helma Lutz and Aranka Benazha
Part IV: Contested labour rights, fair-care initiatives and labour organizing
Ethical comments on the working-time regime of live-in care - Bernhard Emunds
Fair care? On the prospects of (and limits to) implementing 'fairness' in live-in care - Karin Schwiter and Anahi Villalba Kaddour
Invisible, yet one of the family? Unravelling the precarious employment conditions of migrant Filipina live-in domestic workers and caregivers in Greece - Theodoros Fouskas
Breaking out of the 'prisoner of love' dilemma: infrastructures of solidarity for live-in care workers in Switzerland - Sarah Schilliger
Part V: Afterword
Brokering care migration - a new element in the transnational care worker supply chain - Ito Peng