Caring for Our Own : Why There is No Political Demand for New American Social Welfare Rights

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levitsky, Sandra R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aging parents--Care.

Care--Family relationships.

Social service--United States.

Welfare state--United States.

Local Subjects:

Aging parents--Care.

Care--Family relationships.

Social service--United States.

Welfare state--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Other Title:

Caring for Our Own

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Caring for Our Own inverts an enduring question of social welfare politics. Rather than ask why the American state hasn't responded to unmet social welfare needs by expanding social entitlements, this book asks: Why don't American families view unmet social welfare needs as the basis for demands for new state entitlements? The answer, Sandra Levitsky argues, lies in a better understanding of how individuals imagine solutions to the social welfare problems they confront and what prevents new understandings of social welfare provision from developing into political demand for alternative social arrangements.

Contents:

Cover; Caring for Our Own; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Caring for Our Own; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Roots and Experience of Contemporary Caregiving; Chapter 3 The Transformation of Private Needs into Public Issues; Chapter 4 The Construction of Political Solutions to Unmet Long-Term Care Needs; Chapter 5 Communicating Grievances- Policy Feedback and the Deserving Citizen; Chapter 6 Communicating Grievances-Obstacles to Activism; Chapter 7 Caring for Our Own; APPENDIX ADemographic Statistics for Family Caregiver Sample (n=176)

APPENDIX BAdvocacy Organizations and Interview SubjectsReferences; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-19-999314-9