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So right now we don’t know if in a year from now we’ll still be employed or if we’ll be laid off. Right now no job is stable, even if you have a contract. You know, I have a permanent contract but I don’t know to what extent it’s permanent, because we’ve seen … we’ve seen cases of colleagues who were on permanent contracts and for one reason or another they were laid off. So, I tell you, right now no job is stable. (Victoria, 54, Ecuador, Madrid)
Victoria is an Ecuadorian woman who had been living in Spain for 26 years when I interviewed her. For most of these 26 years, she had been working two jobs: a couple of nights per week she took care of residents in a care home, and during the day she provided domiciliary care to several elderly persons.
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https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F40, last accessed February 2016.
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For a presentation in English of the movement: http://eipcp.net/transversal/0704/precarias1/en, last accessed February 2016.
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In French: la ‘déstabilisation des stables’.
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In French: ‘précarité’ and ‘un mode de domination d’un type nouveau’.
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https://www.unison.org.uk/upload/sharepoint/On%20line%20Catalogue/21049.pdf, last accessed February 2016.
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Mutuas are funded through social security schemes, run by businesses under the administrative supervision of the Ministry of Employment and Social Security, and they are designed to cover work-related accidents and illnesses.
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Sahraoui, N. (2019). Precarious Care Jobs in Neoliberal Times. In: Racialised Workers and European Older-Age Care. Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14397-8_5
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