Lone Mothers Between Paid Work and Care: The Policy Regime in Twenty Countries

ISBN-13: 9781138732230 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 322 str.

Majella Kilkey

Opis

This title was first published in 2000. This is a study which compares and contrasts how lone mothers' relationships to paid work and care-giving are constructed across 20 countries, and with what outcomes for lone mothers' levels of economic well-being. In doing so, the book explores from an international perspective, the implications of the re-orientation of lone mothers' citizenship within the UK policy field from that of care-giver to paid worker. The volume engages with feminist comparative social policy literature concerned with specifying a construction of citizenship appropriate to capturing international variations in women's social rights.

Spis treści

List of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. Mainstream Comparative Welfare State Research: A Review, 3. Feminist Perspectives on Comparative Welfare State Research, 4. Lone Mothers as an Analytical Category in an Examination of How Welfare States Structure Women's Relationship to Paid Work and Care: Rationale and Methods, 5. Poor Mothers: Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, 6. Non-Poor Mothers: The Netherlands, 7. Poor Workers: Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and the United States, 8. Non-Poor Workers: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway and Sweden, 9. Patterns of Convergence and Divergence in the Configuration of Social Rights Attached to Paid Work, Care and Transitions Across Twenty Countries, 10. Conclusions, Appendices, Bibliography

O autorze

Kilkey, Majella