Chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Mainstream Comparative Welfare State Research: A Review -- chapter 3 Feminist Perspectives on Comparative Welfare State Research -- chapter 4 Lone Mothers as an Analytical Category in an Examination of How Welfare States Structure Women's Relationship to Paid Work and Care: Rationale and Methods -- chapter 5 Poor Mothers: Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom -- chapter 6 Non-Poor Mothers: The Netherlands -- chapter 7 Poor Workers: Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and the United States -- chapter 8 Non-Poor Workers: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway and Sweden -- chapter 9 Patterns of Convergence and Divergence in the Configuration of Social Rights Attached to Paid Work, Care and Transitions Across Twenty Countries -- chapter 10 Conclusions. |