Care and Support Rights After Neoliberalism: Balancing Competing Claims Through Policy and Law

ISBN-13: 9781108485203 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 328 str.

Yvette Maker

Opis

This book offers an approach to care and support policy prioritizing gender equality, disability human rights and dignity for all.

Recenzje

'The fundamental social problem that the book attempts to address is marginalization of those who require care and/or provide care in 'liberal welfare states'' Poland Lai, Canadian Journal of Law and Society/La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Care Policy Tensions: 1. A feminist dilemma: support unpaid care or support paid work?; 2. The universal caregiver model: expanding options or imposing new limits?; 3. Disability rights and carers' advocacy: to reject or to recognize care; 4. A disability rights informed ethics of care: interdependence and common humanity; Part II. Balancing Competing Claims through Rights-Based Policy: 5. A new framework for designing rights-based care and support policy; Part III. Care and Support Policy Tensions in Two Liberal Welfare States: 6. Income support for carers of children with disabilities in Australia: background and recent reforms to carer payment; 7. Care, disability, and gender equality in carers' income support: narrow choices and unheard voices; 8. Incorporating multiple options and perspectives: applying the care and support rights principles to carer payment; 9. Care and support for adults in England: background and the recent Care Act reform; 10. Care, disability, and gender equality in English care and support policy: well-being for all with resources for a few?; 11. Maximizing options and opportunities: aligning the Care Act with the care and support rights principle; Conclusions.