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- Title
Cleaning (in) the Swedish Black Market.
- Authors
Larsen, Lotta Björklund
- Abstract
Hiring home cleaning is a contested phenomenon in Sweden and increasingly so when informally recompensed. During the last decade, pigdebatten (the maid debate), a proposal for subsidized, paid home cleaning has divided the public debate along political lines as well as in terms of gender and class. Drawing on the historical notions of what type of work an economy includes (and excludes), this article addresses the contestation of paid home cleaning as a transaction of work. How do buyers negotiate and justify svart (black market) cleaning as an acceptable transaction in time and space when separating the public from the private? This case study is based on interviews with a group of women indicted for having bought cleaning services from an immigrant without a working permit, a case that created a heated media debate in 2003 and 2004.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; HOUSE cleaning; HOUSEHOLD employees; WOMEN household employees; FOREIGN workers; IMMIGRANTS; BLACK market
- Publication
Anthropology in Action, 2012, Vol 19, Issue 1, p8
- ISSN
0967-201X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/aia.2012.190103