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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Razavi, Shahra, Staab, Silke
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Colección:Routledge/UNRISD research in gender and development ; 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of acronyms and abbreviations
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Introduction : global variations in the political and social economy of care : worlds apart? / Shahra Razavi and Silke Staab
  • Care's place re-imagined
  • Democratic care politics in an age of limits / Joan Tronto
  • Shaping the policy agenda : care in advanced industrialized economies
  • Advanced economy, modern welfare state, and traditional care regimes : the case of Switzerland / Mascha Madörin, Brigitte Schnegg and Nadia Baghdadi
  • The struggle against familialism : reconfiguring the care diamond in Japan / Emiko Ochiai, Aya Abe, Takafumi Uzuhashi, Yuko Tamiya and Masato Shikata
  • 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
  • Different worlds : the challenge of care in a development context
  • Beyond maternalism : the political and social organization of childcare in Argentina / Valeria Esquivel and Eleonor Faur
  • The limits of family and community care : challenges for public policy in Nicaragua / Juliana Martinez-Franzoni and Koen Voorend
  • Care in south Africa : a legacy of family disruption / Debbie Budlender and Francie Lund
  • Unpaid and overstretched : coping with HIV & AIDs in Tanzania / Debbie Budlender and Ruth Meena
  • Between the state, market, and family : structures, policies, and practices of care in India / Rajni Palriwala and N. Neetha
  • The politics of care "going public" : actors and institutions
  • Claims and frames in the making of care policies / Fiona Williams
  • Harmonizing global care policy? care and the commission on the status of women / Kate Bedford
  • Global care chains : the transnational aspects of care
  • The globalisation of paid care labour migration : dynamics, impacts, and policy
  • Nicola yeates
  • Contributors
  • Index.