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Family Commitments under Negotiation: Dual Carers in Finland and Italy
Author(s) -
Zechner Minna
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2004.00411.x
Subject(s) - negotiation , dual (grammatical number) , variety (cybernetics) , work (physics) , participant observation , sociology , care work , psychology , political science , social science , computer science , art , engineering , mechanical engineering , literature , artificial intelligence
This paper makes a comparison between Finnish and Italian working dual carers. Dual carers have responsibilities simultaneously at two different fronts. The selected Finnish and Italian samples of carers are doing similar care work in different settings. They negotiate care with a variety of actors and under differing circumstances. A care life story has been constructed for each participant. Then these care life stories have been compared with each other, especially at points where the need for negotiation has been evident, at life's various turning points. There are many individual similarities in negotiations performed in Finland and in Italy. However, their divergent contexts create considerable variation.