Global variations in the political and social economy of care : worlds apart /
Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally borne across gender and social class. Feminist scholarship on the gendered construction of welfare provisioning and welfare regimes has produced a concept...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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Colección: | Routledge/UNRISD research in gender and development ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally borne across gender and social class. Feminist scholarship on the gendered construction of welfare provisioning and welfare regimes has produced a conceptually strong and empirically grounded analysis of care, reinforcing the necessity of rethinking the distinctions between ""the public"" and ""the private"" as well as the links between them. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 270 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781136305788 1136305785 9780203117798 0203117794 9781136305733 1136305734 9781136305771 1136305777 9780415754552 0415754550 |