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Care and social integration in European societies
- Editors:
- PFAU-EFFINGER Birgit, GEISSLER Birgit, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 324p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book provides descriptions and comparative analyses of the now complex and highly varied arrangements for the care of children, disabled and older people in Europe, set within the context of changing labour markets and welfare systems. It includes analyses of the modernisation of informal care and new forms of informal care, topics often neglected in the literature. Issues of gender, family change, social integration and citizenship are all explored in a series of chapters that report on original empirical, cross-national research. All contributors are high-ranking experts involved in the COST A13 Action Programme, funded by the European Union.
Care between work and welfare in European societies
- Editors:
- PFAU-EFFINGER Birgit, ROSTGAARD Tine, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 272p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This book provides insights into the theoretical framework of 'tensions' related to care for children and the elderly in the context of recent welfare state reforms. It brings together experts in the field of research on welfare and work from different disciplines and from different European countries. The different chapters introduce the current debates on tensions related to care and discuss specific types of new tensions that have developed in the context of welfare state reform. Analyses relate to new tensions that are connected with different types of formal and informal child and elderly care, and with migration related to care. Also, tensions within care cultures, and between the cultural and the institutional framework of care are analysed. Moreover, it is shown if and under which conditions welfare state reforms have contributed to strengthen existing tensions or even to create new tensions, and under which conditions they have contributed to relax such tensions.