How welfare states care : culture, gender, and parenting in Europe / / Monique Kremer

• Autore: Kremer Monique
• Pubblicazione: [Amsterdam], : Amsterdam University Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.4/4094
• Soggetto topico: Mothers - Employment - Europe; Child care - Government policy - Europe; Child care services - Europe; Work and family - Europe; Welfare state - Europe
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-293) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents; Tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Working Women and the Question of Care and Culture in Europe; 2. Cinderella and Snow White Are Fairy Tales: Linking Care and Citizenship; 3. Policy or Culture? Explaining Women's Employment Differences in Europe; 4. Citizenship in Practice: Work, Care and Income; 5. The Right to Give Care: Tax, Social Security, and Leave; 6. The Right to Receive Care: The State of Childcare Services; 7. After Full-Time Mother Care: Ideals of Care in Policy; 8. How Welfare States Work: Ideals of Care in Practice ; 9. Conclusion: Care and the Cultural Dimension of Welfare States Appendix 1 Governments in Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands and the UK 1980-2000; Appendix 2 List of Interviewees; Notes; References; Index of Names; Index of Subjects
• Sommario/riassunto: Indepth analysis of women's (and men's) employment and care patterns, as well as, child care services, taxation, leave schemes and social security in four different welfare states of Europe.
• Titolo autorizzato: How welfare states care
• ISBN: 1-281-15433-4; 9786611154332; 90-485-0172-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910146424303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Changing welfare states.