Employment of Filipinas as nannies in the context of post-socialist Czech Republ ****************************************************************************************** * Redlová Redlová ****************************************************************************************** Abstrakt During the post-socialist development in the Czech Republic, many official and informal so institutions have been reorganized: from the political and economical systems to gender an relationships. The society became engaged in global processes, including migration and the market. Commodification and commercialization of domestic work have developed. Employment nannies and housekeepers - although not statistically significant yet - represents a sympt the transformations and current development and a re-definition of a widespread social pra many foreign countries. This paper presents an analysis of commodification of care. Specifically, I look at the wa agencies operate and how they approach potential customers offering care services of live- nannies as a specific product with certain characteristics. I also focus on how the agenci the domestic work itself in order to examine whether it is recognized like any other work. part of the text deals with the working conditions as they are perceived by the nannies an nannies' position in the family, considered within the broader gender relations. The artic on qualitative interviews with agency representatives and with nannies and on an analysis intermediary agencies. Although the text is rather descriptive, it seeks to connect the Fi workers' employment with current socio-economic changes. Klíčová slova care commodification; Czech Republic; Filipinas; intermediary agencies; post-socialism Článek v PDF ke stažení [ URL "LM-902-version1-redlova.pdf"] Redlová Redlová [ URL "LM-325.html "]