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"Why do some welfare states provide income support for mothers to care for their school-aged children at home while others expect them to find employment when their youngest child is six months old? This study, a fundamental contribution to social policy and social-welfare theory, compares rece...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Baker, Maureen
Otros Autores: Tippin, David John, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Berufstätigkeit
Sozialhilfe
Mutter
Reform
Wohlfahrtsstaat
Poor women > Government policy.
Mothers > Government policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Femmes pauvres > Politique gouvernementale > Études transculturelles.
Meres > Politique gouvernementale > Études transculturelles.
Poor women > Government policy > Cross-cultural studies.
Mothers > Government policy > Cross-cultural studies.
Kanada.
Kanada
Neuseeland
Grossbritannien
Australien
Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF TABLES""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""1 Setting the Stage""; ""Introduction""; ""Objective of This Study""; ""The Political Economy of Social-Program Development""; ""Mothering, Dependency, and Employability""; ""Choice of Countries""; ""Comparing the Four Countries""; ""Outline of the Book""; ""2 Gendering the Analysis of Restructuring""; ""Introduction""; ""'Malestream' Theories of the Welfare State""; ""Feminist Approaches to Welfare Reforms""; ""Dependency and Social Assistance""; ""Employability Programs""; ""Employability Policy: Implications for Low-income Mothers""
  • ""Conclusion""""3 Government Debt and Policy Choices: Restructuring in Canada""; ""Introduction""; ""Debt and the Canadian Welfare State""; ""A Brief Overview of Federal Social Programs""; ""Provincial Social-Assistance Programs""; ""Restructuring Canadian Social Programs""; ""Opposition to Restructuring""; ""Conclusion""; ""4 From Public to Private Dependency? Reforming Policies in Australia""; ""Introduction""; ""Overview of Social Programs in Australia""; ""The Social-Security Review and Its Aftermath""; ""'Choice' and Government Rhetoric""; ""Conclusion""
  • ""5 The 'Great Experiment': Restructuring New Zealand's Social Programs""""Introduction""; ""The Development of Social Security in New Zealand""; ""Restructuring the New Zealand Political Economy""; ""Social-Program Restructuring: Redefining Dependency""; ""Restructuring Social Programs: Towards Employability?""; ""Consolidating New Directions: Well-being and Responsibility""; ""Conclusion""; ""6 The United Kingdom: Restructuring the 'Nanny State'""; ""Introduction""; ""The Questioning of Collectivism and Social Citizenship""; ""Restructuring British Social Programs for Low-Income Mothers""
  • ""The Universal Child Benefit and Income-Tax Benefits""""Child Support""; ""Childcare""; ""Welfare to Paid Work: 'New Deals' for the Unemployable""; ""The Impact of the European Union""; ""Conclusion""; ""7 Welfare-State Restructuring: The Poverty of Employability""; ""Introduction""; ""Cross-National Variations in Welfare States""; ""Factors Affecting Restructuring""; ""Conclusion: Towards a Theory of Welfare-State Restructuring""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""
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