Gender, Welfare State and the Market (eBook, PDF)

Towards a New Division of Labour
Redaktion: Boje, Thomas; Leira, Arnlaug

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134564385
• Artikelnr.: 38247269

Autorenporträt

Thomas P. Boje is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Umeå, Sweden. He is currently editor-in-chief for the ESA journal European Societies., Arnlaug Leira is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Gender, welfare state and the market: towards a new division
of labour? Thomas P. Boje and Arnlaug Leira Section 1: Women's Employment
and Welfare Systems 1. Paid work, unpaid work and welfare: towards a
framework for studying welfare state variation Mary Daly 2. Citizenship,
family policy and women's pattern of employment Thomas P. Boje and
Anna-Lena Almqvist 3. Variation within post-fordist and liberal welfare
state countries, women's work and social rights in Canada and the United
States Cecilia Benoit 4. Family policy and mothers' employment:
cross-national varitions Janet Gornick Section II. Family Policy - Work and
Care in Different Welfare Systems 5. Gendered Policies: family obligations
and social policies in Europe Chiara Saraceno 6. Combining work and family:
Nordic policy reforms in the 1990s Arnlaug Leira 7. Child care policies in
Japan: post-war developments and recent reforms Ito Peng 8. Changing
obligations and expectations: lone parenthood and social policy Jane Millar
9. Solo mothers - how do they work and care in different welfare state
regimes? Jørgen Elm Larsen 10. Labour, gender, and the state Evelyn Mahon