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UNINA9910171016303321 |
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Titolo |
Care work : gender, class, and the welfare state / / edited by Madonna Harrington Meyer |
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New York, : Routledge, 2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-95957-9 |
1-135-95958-7 |
0-203-90446-X |
1-280-40736-0 |
0-203-90445-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (361 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Harrington MeyerMadonna <1959-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Public welfare - United States |
Social service - United States |
Sex role - United States |
United States Social policy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Titre de la couv.: Care work : gender, labor, and the walfare state. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; GENDERING CARE WORK; A Historical Perspective on Care; The History of Men's Caring; Claiming the Right to Care; The Impact of Social Activism on Gender Identity and Care Work; PUBLIC MARKETS/PRIVATE CARING; Cash in Care; Caring by the Book; The Conflicts of Caring; Paid Emotional Care; The International Division of Caring and Cleaning Work; WELFARE STATES: UNSTABLE SUPPORTS?; Examining Care at Welfare's End; Paying for Care; Filling in the Gaps in Long Term Care Insurance; Shifting the Burden Back to Families? |
ORGANIZING AND REORGANIZING CARE WORKMarketization and the Struggling Logics of (Home) Care in The Netherlands; Disability Reform and Women's Caring Work; ~Making a Way Outta No Way~; Hope for the Children; Notes/References; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Care Work is a collection of original essays on the complexities of providing care. These essays emphasize how social policies intersect with gender, race, and class to alternately compel women to perform |
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