Care work : the quest for security / / edited by Mary Daly

• Pubblicazione: London, : International Labour Office, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1023
• Soggetto topico: Caregivers; Caregivers - Finance; Home care services - Finance
• Altri autori: DalyMary E
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: This insightful volume argues that care workers --those looking after children, the elderly, and people with disabilities --require security similar to any other group of workers. It provides a valuable overview and analysis of care work as a relevant social policy phenomenon in industrialized and developing countries around the world, while exploring pivotal questions such as how provisions for care are made, who is to benefit, and who is to pay.
• Titolo autorizzato: Care work
• ISBN: 1-280-02822-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910973691603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II