Care work : gender, class, and the welfare state / edited by Madonna Harrington Meyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrington Meyer, Madonna, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--United States.

Social service--United States.

Sex role--United States.

United States--Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Care work : gender, labor, and the welfare state

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Care Work is a collection of original essays on the complexities of providing care. These essays emphasize how social policies intersect with gender, race, and class to alternately compel women to perform care work and to constrain their ability to do so. Leading international scholars from a range of disciplines provide a groundbreaking analysis of the work of caring in the context of the family, the market, and the welfare state.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; GENDERING CARE WORK; A Historical Perspective on Care; The History of Men's Caring; Claiming the Right to Care; The Impact of Social Activism on Gender Identity and Care Work; PUBLIC MARKETS/PRIVATE CARING; Cash in Care; Caring by the Book; The Conflicts of Caring; Paid Emotional Care; The International Division of Caring and Cleaning Work; WELFARE STATES: UNSTABLE SUPPORTS?; Examining Care at Welfare's End; Paying for Care; Filling in the Gaps in Long Term Care Insurance; Shifting the Burden Back to Families?

ORGANIZING AND REORGANIZING CARE WORKMarketization and the Struggling Logics of (Home) Care in The Netherlands; Disability Reform and Women's Caring Work; ~Making a Way Outta No Way~; Hope for the Children; Notes/References; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Titre de la couv.: Care work : gender, labor, and the walfare state.

ISBN:

1-135-95957-9

1-135-95958-7

0-203-90446-X

1-280-40736-0

0-203-90445-1

OCLC:

559989957