Global variations in the political and social economy of care
Subtitle: worlds apart
By: edited by Shahra Razavi and Silke Staab
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Routledge/UNRISD research in gender and development -- 8
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780415522502
Subjects: Case studies; Social service; Caregivers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of figures; title: List of tables; title: List of acronyms and abbreviations; title: Preface and acknowledgments; title: Introduction : global variations in the political and social economy of care : worlds apart? / Shahra Razavi and Silke Staab; title: Care's place re-imagined; title: Democratic care politics in an age of limits / Joan Tronto; title: Shaping the policy agenda : care in advanced industrialized economies; title: Advanced economy, modern welfare state, and traditional care regimes : the case of Switzerland / Mascha Madörin, Brigitte Schnegg and Nadia Baghdadi; title: The struggle against familialism : reconfiguring the care diamond in Japan / Emiko Ochiai, Aya Abe, Takafumi Uzuhashi, Yuko Tamiya and Masato Shikata; title: The boss, the worker, his wife, and no babies : south korean political and social economy of care in a context of institutional rigidities / Ito Peng; title: Different worlds : the challenge of care in a development context; title: Beyond maternalism : the political and social organization of childcare in Argentina / Valeria Esquivel and Eleonor Faur; title: The limits of family and community care : challenges for public policy in Nicaragua / Juliana Martinez-Franzoni and Koen Voorend; title: Care in south Africa : a legacy of family disruption / Debbie Budlender and Francie Lund; title: Unpaid and overstretched : coping with HIV & AIDs in Tanzania / Debbie Budlender and Ruth Meena; title: Between the state, market, and family : structures, policies, and practices of care in India / Rajni Palriwala and N. Neetha; title: The politics of care "going public" : actors and institutions; title: Claims and frames in the making of care policies / Fiona Williams; title: Harmonizing global care policy? care and the commission on the status of women / Kate Bedford; title: Global care chains : the transnational aspects of care; title: The globalisation of paid care labour migration : dynamics, impacts, and policy; title: Nicola yeates; title: Contributors; title: Index.