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This book is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand the changes in the political economy of care in the XXI century. It offers a compelling combination of classic and cutting-edge approaches that sheds light on the emergence of brokerage and agency intermediation in Europe and provides an excellent variety of examples from different countries and care settings.

When within a capitalist institutional framework accelerating ageing leads to the crisis of social care and to further transnational marketization of household services 'Home Care for Sale' is an essential reading. The rich empirical and conceptual work points toward an almost encyclopedic outcome, where commodification, marketization, transnationalization, exploitation in care industry is explained in a complex manner within the context of global and local inequalities.

‘Home Care for Sale’ provides an encyclopedic account of the commodification and marketization of transnationally-brokered senior home care provision across Europe, including the UK. It pays close attention to the economic and social inequalities, as well as state policies, that underlie this new migration industry, as well as collective efforts to contest and improve conditions of work and care. ‘Home Care for Sale’ documents the geography of care chains within a divided Europe.

Relatedly, the global appeal of the book lies in its focus on current developments in the proliferation of transnational brokering agencies and its contribution to unfolding debates on the commodification and marketisation of care. This temporal focus is well-rooted, however, in several decades of state disinvestment from or restructuring of the care sector and the unevenness of European integration fuelling the transnational organisation of care.

Home Care for Sale offers a vital insight into the contemporary live-in care market in Europe, with a particular focus on the role of brokerage agencies and other intermediaries in negotiating and managing care work [...] Home Care for Sale will prove useful for academics and policy makers examining care work, the marketisation and commercialisation of care, European social policy, and intra-European migration.

Within and beyond the European context, students, scholars, policymakers, but also civil society organizations seeking to bring about change will find in this book a valuable resource of information about live-in care brokerage, its limitations and pitfalls, along with proposals for how to move beyond the entrenched exploitation and devaluation of care and reproductive labor in a globalized economy.