Care Work : The Quest for Security [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816539903321
• Autore: Daly Mary
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Geneva, CHE, : International Labour Office Bureau International du Travail, 20011101; International Labour Office Bureau International du Travail
• ISBN: 1-280-02822-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1023
• Soggetti: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Labor; Caregivers - Government policy; Caregivers - Economic conditions; Caregivers - Finance; Home care services; Social Welfare & Social Work - General; Social Welfare & Social Work; Social Sciences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 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 -- Figure 1.1 The social process of care -- 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 -- Table 2.1 Universe of provision for 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 -- Table 2.2 Clustering of European countries on the basis of their provision for children -- Table 2.3 Clustering of European countries on the basis of their provision for the elderly -- Evaluating alternative ways of compensating for care -- The different features of care as a policy good -- Considering the likely effects of different policy measures -- Table 2.4 How policy provisions rate in relation to different objectives -- 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 -- Table 3.1 Labour force participation as a percentage of population from age 15-64 -- Table 3.2 Part-time employment in 13 OECD countries ranked by part-time employment as a proportion of female employment (1979 and 1995, percentages)1.; Figure 3.1 Patterns of male and female paid work and arrangements for care -- 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 -- Table 5.1 Child survival and development -- 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 crèches 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 Tchetvern -- 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 -- Table 7.1 The most widespread social benefits and allowances for child care (Russian Federation) -- Social-service-related assistance to the elderly and the disabled -- Table 7.2 Evolution of home-based social services -- Efficiency of the social protection system -- Table 7.3 Ratio of minimum social guarantees to the subsistence minimum.; 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 -- Table 8.1 Publicly funded day care for children in Finland, 1965-98 -- Table 8.2 Care of children under age 3 in Finland, 1985-98 -- Elder care in transition -- Support for informal caring: The system of home-care allowances -- Table 8.3 The primary sources of help among people aged 65+ in Finland in 1994 -- Table 8.4 Care service provision for older people in Finland in 1998 -- Conclusion -- 9 CARE WORK: INNOVATIONS IN THE NETHERLANDS Trudie Knijn -- Introduction -- Welfare state and care discourse -- The care-gap discourse -- 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" -- Table 9.1 Types of families ; with children, 1998 -- 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 lV REPRESENTATION FOR CARE WORK -- 11 FROM PRIVATE CARER TO PUBLIC ACTOR: THE CARERS' 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 State -- What 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 -- Conclusions: Security of care, security of work -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.