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Gender, social care and welfare state restructuring in Europe / edited by Jane Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social service--Europe.
- Social service.
- Women--Services for.
- Europe.
- Public welfare--Europe.
- Public welfare.
- Women--Services for--Europe.
- Women.
- Women--Europe--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Welfare state.
- Europe--Social policy.
- Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate, [1998]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Conceptualising Social Care in the Context of Welfare State Restructuring / Mary Daly, Jane Lewis 1
- 1 A More Caring State? The Implications of Welfare State Restructuring for Social Care in the Republic of Ireland / Mary Daly 25
- 2 Gender, Care and the Changing Role of the State in the UK / Hilary Land, Jane Lewis 51
- 3 Social Care in The Netherlands / Trudie Knijn 85
- 4 The Politics of Care Policies in Germany / Ilona Ostner 111
- 5 Caring for Very Young Children and Dependent Elderly People in France: Towards a Commodification of Social Care? / Claude Martin, Antoine Math, Evelyne Renaudat 139
- 6 Restructuring Social Care in Italy / Rossana Trifiletti 175
- 7 The Changing 'Welfare Mix' in Childcare and Care for the Frail Elderly in Norway / Kari Woerness 207
- 8 Paradoxes of Social Care Restructuring: The Finnish Case / Leila Simonen, Anne Kovalainen 229
- 9 Changing Divisions of Carework: Caring for Children and Frail Elderly People in Sweden / Marta Szebehely 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1840145382
- OCLC:
- 40714022
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