Care-Arbeit und das Ethos fürsorglicher Praxis unter neuen Marktbedingungen am Beispiel der Pflegepraxis

Since the second part of the 20th century, paid work, for both women and men, has been the experience of participating in publicly appreciated social exchange. During the same time the industrial society has been changing into a service society, but also care-activities have and been integrated into processes of market and valorization. To cope with the implications of these developments for the ethos of care, the text starts with the demonstration of diverse development paths into the service society; in a second step the question of the rationalizability of services in the context of care is discussed, and on this basis empirical findings about dilemmata situation are illustrated from the perspectives of individual professional care workers. At the end a plea for societal carefulness is formulated.