The transformation of care in European societies
By: edited by Margarita León
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781137326508
Subjects: Public welfare; Child care; Older people; Care; Social policy; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Eldercare; MEDICAL / Caregiving; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology
Description: "By bringing together the work of leading international scholars in the field of care, this book aims to explore the nature and extent of the 'care deficit' problem in European societies and how effective the different care systems are in dealing with these problems through policy innovation. This volume combines theoretical and conceptual debates, cross-national comparisons and analytically-driven case studies. From different inter-disciplinary approaches and methodologies, the questions this project set to explore are the ways in which European countries are facing similar challenges and the factors that help us understand the wide variety of responses that are being offered"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction1. Pressures Towards and Within Universalism: Conceptualising Change in Care Policy and Discourse2. Cross-National Variations in Care and Care as a Labour Market3. Migrant Care Work in Europe: Variety and Institutional Determinant4. Explaining Differences in Childcare and Women's Employment Across Six European 'Gender Arrangements'5. Support for Government Intervention in Child Care Across European Countries6. Support to the Elderly and Caring Regimes: An Analysis of Patterns of Informal Support and their Determinants in Six European Countries7. The Transnationalisation of Older Care in Austria8. Nordic Care and Care Work in the Public Service Model of Denmark: Ideational Factors of Change9. Day-Care Trends for Children Under Three Years in Germany10. Long Term and Child Care Policies in Italy Between Familism and Privatisation11. Transformation of Elderly Care in Poland12. Early Childhood Education and Care Provision in Spain13. Divisions of Care Labour: Care for Older People and Migrant Workers in England14. Similar Trends, Different Responses: The Transformation of Care in European Societies.