Who cares? : women's work, childcare, and welfare state redesign /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Sineau, Mariette. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2001] |
| Series: | Studies in comparative political economy and public policy ;
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- 1.. The Care Dimension in Welfare State Redesign
- Welfare States and Care
- Care and Citizenship Regimes
- Childcare and Public Policy
- 2.. New Contexts, New Policies
- A New Demographic and Sociological Context
- The Baby Boom Ends
- The End of Full Employment
- Yet Women Are Staying in the Labour Force
- New Patterns of Employment
- Employment Policy: Confronting 'Flexibility' and Unemployment
- Moving towards Flexibility
- The Struggle against Unemployment
- Family Policies Caught up in Welfare State Redesign
- Changing Institutions: Decentralizing the State and Offloading to the Market
- Belgium: Moving towards Federalism
- Italy: Regions Take Their Place
- French Jacobinism Adapts
- Sweden Decentralizes
- The European Union Arrives
- 3.. Belgium: The Vices and Virtues of Pragmatism
- Egalitarian Citizenship at the Height of the Welfare State
- The Difficult Birth of the FESC
- The Aborted Child-Rearing Allowance
- The Egalitarian Model Tested by the Economic Crisis
- Tax Reform and Childcare
- The Impact of Employment Policies on Childcare
- Towards a Frontal Assault on the Egalitarian Model?
- 4.. France: Reconciling Republican Equality with 'Freedom of Choice'
- Upheaval and Crisis: Modernity and Ambivalence in the Giscardian Years
- Modernity and the Politics of Childcare
- Ambivalence
- The Direction of Change Is Set: The 1977 Parental Leave
- The Crisis Continues: The Invention of New Services
- Support for Day Nurseries: The Weak Link in the Chain
- Individualized and Targeted Solutions
- Parental Leave: The Labour Code Becomes Family Oriented
- The Parental Child-Rearing Allowance of 1984 and 1986: Paying Mothers to Care
- Save Some Time, Employ Someone: Two Subsidies for Hiring a Childminder
- Part-Time Work
- The 1994 Reform
- Freedom of Choice versus Republican Equality?
- The Presidents of the Republic
- Governments and Parliaments
- 5.. Italy: Policy without Participation
- The Long Arm of the Post-War Constitutional Compromise
- Signs of Movement in the 1960s
- The Missed Revolution? The 1970s
- Political and Financial Crises in the 1990s
- 6.. Sweden: Models in Crisis
- The Modern Mother-Housewife in the 'Small World' of the People's Home
- The 'Right to Be Human:' Towards the Egalitarian Model, 1960-1980
- The Swedish Model(s) in Crisis?
- The Egalitarian Model at the End of the Twentieth Century: Only a Parenthesis?
- 7.. Europe: An Actor without a Role
- The Beginnings of Europe's Role
- Reconciliation and Its Declensions
- The Delors Commissions: Social and Family Policy
- Family Policy
- The Social Charter
- Nested Narratives, Multiple Motives
- Parental Leave: Detouring to Family Policy through the Maastricht Social Protocol
- From Social Dialogue to Parental Leave
- Concluding?
- 8.. Comparing Childcare Programs: Commonalities Amid Variety
- Work and Family: A Variety of Policy Mixes
- Publicly Financed and Provided Services for Young Children
- Use and Access to Services
- A Variety of Structures
- Cost and Financing
- General Trends
- Privately Provided Childcare
- Privately Purchased Childcare
- Parental Leaves
- Cared for by Mothers
- 9.. Citizenship in the Era of Welfare State Redesign
- Post-War Citizenship Regimes and Ideas about Women's Work
- The Post-War Dream: Children at Home with their Mothers
- Another Value Arrives: Gender Equality
- Childcare Choices in the New Conditions
- Women's Work: New or Recycled Representations?
- Common Patterns of Movement in Childcare Programs
- Citizenship Rights in New Times
- Bibliography
- Contributors