Clémence Ledoux, Karen Shire and Franca van Hooren are editors of the book "The Dynamics of Welfare Markets - Private Pensions and Domestic/Care Services in Europe", recently published with Palgrave Macmillan. The contributions to this book are exploring and comparing the dynamics of the very different segments of the welfare market, private pensions and domestic and care services.

In her presentation, Karen Shire (University of Duisburg-Essen) focused on home-based domestic and care services and in particular on the case of Germany, where a few hundred thousand migrant care workers are employed in a wide variety of work arrangements. These workers have little to no recourse to union representation and collective bargaining, thus they find themselves often in vulnerable positions.

Karen Shire intensified the exchange with CRC 1342 in a workshop organised by project B07 together with Helma Lutz (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt).