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Gender, welfare state, and the market : towards a new division of labour / edited Thomas P. Boje and Arnlaug Leira.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge research in gender and society ; 4.
- Routledge research in gender and society ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual division of labor--OECD countries.
- Sexual division of labor.
- Labor policy--OECD countries.
- Labor policy.
- Welfare state.
- OECD countries--Economic policy.
- OECD countries.
- OECD countries--Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume represents the present state of theoretical debate in welfare state scholarship, drawing on research from western Europe, North America and Japan. It therefore provides a valuable balance of breadth and detail from the broad international overview to comparisons between specific welfare states and national case studies.
- Contents:
- Gender, Welfare State and the Market Towards a new division of labour; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on Editors; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: gender, welfare state and the market - towards a new division of labour; Part IWomen's employment and welfare systems; 1 Paid work, unpaid work and welfare: towards a framework for studying welfare state variation; 2 Citizenship, family policy and women's patterns of employment; 3 Variation within post-Fordist and liberal welfare state countries: women's work and social rights in Canada and the United States
- 4 Welfare states, labour markets and gender relations in transition: the decline of the Scandinavian model? 5 Family policy and mothers' employment: cross-national variations; Part II Family policy - work and care in different welfare systems; 6 Gendered policies: family obligations and social policies in Europe; 7 Combining work and family: Nordic policy reforms in the 1990's; 8 Childcare policies in Japan: postwar developments and recent reforms; 9 Lone mothers: how do they work and care in different welfare state regimes?
- 10 Changing obligations and expectations: lone parenthood and social policy Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-11315-4
- 9786610113156
- 1-134-56438-4
- 0-203-99228-8
- 9780203992289
- OCLC:
- 74495978
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