Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 The Employers' Perspective on Paid Domestic and Care Work -- Part I Everyday Negotiations through the Employers' Eyes -- 2 Employers as 'Care Managers': Contracts, Emotions and Mutual Obligations within Italy's Invisible Welfare System -- 3 Modern Domesticity: Why Professional Women Hire Domestic Workers in Spain -- 4 Class Guilt? Employers and Their Relationships with Domestic Workers in Poland -- 5 Dilemmas of Paid Home-care for the Elderly in Spain: Daughters, Elderly and Domestic Employees -- 6 'Mum Seems Happy'. Relatives of Dependent Elders and the Difficult Task to Employ a Migrant Care-giver -- Part II Employers and the Changing Policies on Domestic and Care Work -- 7 Employment Without Employers? The Public Discourse on Care During the Regularisation Reform in Austria -- 8 Outsourcing Housework: Clients, Agencies and the Voucher System in Brussels -- 9 An Employer Sui Generis: How Placement Agencies Are Changing the Nature of Paid Childcare in the Czech Republic -- 10 When the State Steps In: An Experiment of Subsidised Hiring of Domestic Workers in Slovenia -- Part III From Host Parents to Employers: Recent Developments in Au Pair Schemes -- 11 Au Pairs and Changing Family Needs in the United Kingdom -- 12 A Fair Deal? Paid Domestic Labour in Social Democratic Norway -- 13 Paying for Care: Advantages and Challenges for the Employers -- Index.