Care between work and welfare in European societies

This book provides insights into the theoretical framework of 'tensions' related to care for children and the elderly. It analyzes if, and under what conditions, welfare state reforms have contributed to strengthening existing tensions, creating new tensions, or relaxing such tensions. BIRGIT PFAU-EFFINGER is Full Professor of Sociology and Director at the Centre of Globalisation and Governance at the Institute for Sociology, University of Hamburg, Germany. Her main fields of research include cross-national differences of welfare states, family policies, gender arrangements, undeclared work, childcare and elderly care and the cultural and structural forces underlying such differences. She has authored or edited 14 books and many articles in international academic journals. TINE ROSTGAARD is Senior Researcher at The Danish National Centre for Social Research, Denmark. Her previous research focuses on care for children and elderly, often in a comparative perspective, and includes studies of care architecture, conceptualisations of quality in care, care migration and development of indicators of care policies. She has authoredmany articles and co-edited a number of special issues on these topics. She is the co-organiser with Birgit Pfau-Effinger of the international Transformingcare conferences. INDICE: Tensions Related to Care in European Welfare States; 'B.Pfau-Effinger '&' T.Rostgaard - 'Theorising Care and Care Work; 'A.Anttonen '&' M.Zechner - 'Tensions between Care Values and Care Policies in European Societies; 'B.Pfau-Effinger - 'Tensions in Family Policies in Post-Communist Central Europe;'S.Saxonberg' - Nordic Child Care - a Response to Old and New Tensions?; 'G.Eydal '&' T.Rostgaard - 'Tensions Related to the Transition of Elderly Care from an Unpaid to a Paid Activity; 'P.H.Jensen '&' R.Juul Møberg - 'Under Tension: Formal Care Work with Older People;' T.Kröger - 'Tensions Related to Care Migration - The South-North Divide of Long Term Care; 'T.Rostgaard, C.Chiatti '&' G.Lamura - 'Migrant Carers in Eldercare Provision: Interaction of Policy Fields; 'H.Theobald - 'Tensions Related to Cash for Care Schemes; 'B.Da Roit '&' B.Le Bihan - '

• ISBN: 978-0-230-29129-4
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 03/06/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés