Global variations in the political and social economy of care : worlds apart / edited by Shahra Razavi and Silke Staab.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Razavi, Shahra.

Staab, Silke.

Series:

Routledge/UNRISD research in gender and development ; 8.

Routledge/UNRISD research in gender and development ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social service--Case studies.

Social service.

Caregivers--Case studies.

Caregivers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally borne across gender and social class. Feminist scholarship on the gendered construction of welfare provisioning and welfare regimes has produced a conceptually strong and empirically grounded analysis of care, reinforcing the necessity of rethinking the distinctions between ""the public"" and ""the private"" as well as the links between them. Yet this analysis, premised on post-industrial contexts, does not travel easily to other parts of the worl

Contents:

pt. 1. Care's place re-imagined

pt. 2. Shaping the policy agenda : care in advanced industrialized economies

pt. 3. Different worlds? : the challenge of care in a development context

pt. 4. The politics of care "going public" : actors and institutions

pt. 5. Global care chains : the transnational aspects of care.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-30577-7

1-280-68431-3

9786613661258

1-136-30578-5

0-203-11779-4

9780203117798

OCLC:

804665802