Care Work The quest for security
İÇİNDEKİLERCONTENTS Preface Notes on contributors List of abbreviations Introduction, Mary Daly and Guy Standing. The time squeeze The need for voice. The future of care work. Structure of the study PART I: Care as decent work 1. Care work: Overcoming insecurity and neglect, Guy Standing Introduction Care, identity and citizenship Care work: A framework. Compensation: From gift to market Income security: The role of the State Conclusion 2. Care policies in Western Europe, Mary Daly Conceptualizations and definitions of care The evolution of care as a concept Care as a social policy analysis tool Policy parameters of care Provision for care in European welfare states General outline of trends in provision Public policies on care in European welfare states Models of managing care in European welfare states Evaluating alternative ways of compensating for care The different features of care as a policy good. Considering the likely effects of different policy measures . Overview 3. Legitimizing care work and the issue of gender equality, Jane Lewis The crisis in care Care and the erosion of the male breadwinner model Anxieties about growing individualism and the implications for care The nature of care work and an ethic of care Policy implications PART II: Care in developing countries 4. Development, freedom and care: The case of India, Umadevi Sambasivan Introduction ............................. Individualism and care in industrialized countries The familial self in India The self and child-care practices in India The elderly in Indian society. Conclusion 5. Early childhood care and development in India: Some policy issues, Rekha Wazir Introduction The case for ECCD ECCD in the Indian context ECCD indicators ECCD programmes Key policy issues Conclusion: the need for dialogue 6. Child care as public policy in Brazil, Bila Sorj Introduction Profile of the supply and demand for creches and pre-school nurseries Types of pre-school Pre-school management Child care as a social good Social struggles Public policies Child care as a "right to education" Tensions and ambiguities Conclusion 7. Social support for home-based care in the Russian Federation, Liana Lakunina, Natalia Stepantchikova and Tatyana Tchetvernina Introduction The background to social protection policies as they relate to care Privileges to workers providing care for family members System of state support for persons in need of care Income benefits Social-service-related assistance to the elderly and the disabled Efficiency of the social protection system Reforming the social protection system PART III: Care in industrialized countries 8. The politics of social care in Finland: Child and elder care in transition, Anneli Anttonen Introduction The Scandinavian social care regime Finnish child-care policy: Universalism and pluralism Elder care in transition Support for informal caring: the system of home-care allowances Conclusion 9. Care work: Innovations in the Netherlands, Trudie Knijn. Introduction Welfare state and care discourse The care-gap discourseCare worn: The quest Tor security Substitution of formal by informal care discourse The care and work discourse. The care and citizenship discourse The ethics of care discourse Care as a dimension of the "Combination Scenario" . Do women gain? Care work: Another private solution Conclusion 10. Accounting for care in the United States, Nancy Folbre Introduction Defining care. The care labour force in the United States The decline of home-making Time-use surveys Employment in care occupations Employment in care industries Three care industries Health care Child care Elder care Public support for care in the United States Support for child rearing Child care Elder care Conclusion PART IV: Representation for care work 11. From private carer to public actor: The carer's movement in England, Marian Barnes. Introduction The National Council for the Single Woman and her Dependants "A stronger voice" The Birmingham Community Care Special Action Project (CCSAP). Consolidation Informal care and the StateWhat do carers want from community care? Conclusion 12. Caring for carers: An example from Ireland, Eddie Collins-Hughes Introduction The Carers' Association of Ireland Lobbying and advocacy Providing for the needs of carers The future 13. Creating unions, creating employers: A Los Angeles home-care campaign, Jess Walsh Introduction The home-care industry and labour market Creating a union of independent providers in Los Angeles The emergence of the public authority model Establishing a public authority in LA County Home-care workers and consumers emerge as a political force Back to the State: Reforming home-care funding in California Conclusion: Security of care, security of work. Bibliography Index List of tables 2.1 Universe of provision for care 2.2 Clustering of European countries on the basis of their provision for children 2.3 Clustering of European countries on the basis of their provision for the elderly 2.4 How policy provisions rate in relation to different objectives . . 3.1 Labour force participation as a percentage of population from age 15-64 3.2 Part-time employment in 13 OECD countries ranked by part-time employment as a proportion of female employment (1979 and 1995, percentages) 5.1 Child survival and development 7.1 The most widespread social benefits and allowances for child care (Russian Federation) 7.2 Evolution of home-based social services 7.3 Ratio of minimum social guarantees to the subsistence minimum(1996-98). 8.1 Publicly funded day care for children in Finland, 1965-98 8.2 Care of children under age 3 in Finland, 1985-98 8.3 The primary sources of help among people aged 65+ in Finland in 1994 8.4 Care service provision for older people in Finland in 1998 9.1 Types of families with children, 1998 (percentage of families where parents are aged between 20 and 50) List of figures 1.1 The social process of care 3.1 Patterns of male and female paid work and arrangements for care  |
