For love and money : care provision in the United States /

"As women moved into the formal labor force in large numbers over the last forty years, care work - traditionally provided primarily by women - has increasingly shifted from the family arena to the market. Child care, elder care, care for the disabled, and home care now account for a growing se...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Folbre, Nancy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2012.
Subjects:
Caregivers > United States.
Home care services.
Social service > United States.
Soins à domicile.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Marriage & Family.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Caregivers.
Social service.
Pflegepersonal
Krankenpflege
Kinderbetreuung
Sozialpolitik
Frau
United States.
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents; About the Authors; Authorship and Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Defining Care
  • Nancy Folbre and Olin Wright; Chapter 2. Motivating Care
  • Paula England, Nancy Folbre and Carrie Leana; Chapter 3. Unpaid Care
  • Suzanne Bianchi, Nancy Folbre, and Douglass Wolf; Chapter 4. Paid Care Work
  • Candace Howes, Carrie Leana, and Kristin Smith; Chapter 5. Valuing Care
  • Nancy Folbre; Chapter 6. The Care Policy Landscape
  • Janet Gornick, Candance Howes, and Laura Braslow ; Chapter 7. The Disparate Impacts of Care Policy
  • Janet Gornick, Candance Howes, and Laura Braslow.
  • Chapter 8. A Care Policy and Research Agenda
  • Nancy Folbre, Candance Howes, and Carrie Leana Appendix. Measuring Care Work
  • Nancy Folbre and Douglas Wolf ; References; Index.

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