Gender, welfare state, and the market [[electronic resource] ] : towards a new division of labour / / edited Thomas P. Boje and Arnlaug Leira

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, NY, : Routledge, 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3/615
• Soggetto topico: Sexual division of labor - OECD countries; Labor policy - OECD countries; Welfare state
• Soggetto geografico: OECD countries Economic policy; OECD countries Social policy
• Altri autori: BojeThomas P. <1944-> LeiraArnlaug
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Gender, Welfare State and the Market Towards a new division of labour; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on Editors; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: gender, welfare state and the market - towards a new division of labour; Part IWomen's employment and welfare systems; 1 Paid work, unpaid work and welfare: towards a framework for studying welfare state variation; 2 Citizenship, family policy and women's patterns of employment; 3 Variation within post-Fordist and liberal welfare state countries: women's work and social rights in Canada and the United States ; 4 Welfare states, labour markets and gender relations in transition: the decline of the Scandinavian model? 5 Family policy and mothers' employment: cross-national variations; Part II Family policy - work and care in different welfare systems; 6 Gendered policies: family obligations and social policies in Europe; 7 Combining work and family: Nordic policy reforms in the 1990's; 8 Childcare policies in Japan: postwar developments and recent reforms; 9 Lone mothers: how do they work and care in different welfare state regimes? ; 10 Changing obligations and expectations: lone parenthood and social policy Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume represents the present state of theoretical debate in welfare state scholarship, drawing on research from western Europe, North America and Japan. It therefore provides a valuable balance of breadth and detail from the broad international overview to comparisons between specific welfare states and national case studies.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender, welfare state, and the market
• ISBN: 1-280-11315-4; 9786610113156; 1-134-56438-4; 0-203-99228-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783089403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 4.