Global variations in the political and social economy of care : worlds apart /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Razavi, Shahra, Staab, Silke
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Routledge/UNRISD research in gender and development ; 8.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of acronyms and abbreviations
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Introduction : global variations in the political and social economy of care : worlds apart? / Shahra Razavi and Silke Staab
  • Care's place re-imagined
  • Democratic care politics in an age of limits / Joan Tronto
  • Shaping the policy agenda : care in advanced industrialized economies
  • Advanced economy, modern welfare state, and traditional care regimes : the case of Switzerland / Mascha Madörin, Brigitte Schnegg and Nadia Baghdadi
  • The struggle against familialism : reconfiguring the care diamond in Japan / Emiko Ochiai, Aya Abe, Takafumi Uzuhashi, Yuko Tamiya and Masato Shikata
  • The boss, the worker, his wife, and no babies : south korean political and social economy of care in a context of institutional rigidities / Ito Peng
  • Different worlds : the challenge of care in a development context
  • Beyond maternalism : the political and social organization of childcare in Argentina / Valeria Esquivel and Eleonor Faur
  • The limits of family and community care : challenges for public policy in Nicaragua / Juliana Martinez-Franzoni and Koen Voorend
  • Care in south Africa : a legacy of family disruption / Debbie Budlender and Francie Lund
  • Unpaid and overstretched : coping with HIV & AIDs in Tanzania / Debbie Budlender and Ruth Meena
  • Between the state, market, and family : structures, policies, and practices of care in India / Rajni Palriwala and N. Neetha
  • The politics of care "going public" : actors and institutions
  • Claims and frames in the making of care policies / Fiona Williams
  • Harmonizing global care policy? care and the commission on the status of women / Kate Bedford
  • Global care chains : the transnational aspects of care
  • The globalisation of paid care labour migration : dynamics, impacts, and policy
  • Nicola yeates
  • Contributors
  • Index.