Overview

This book explores the highly topical issue of the gender divide of welfare. A common characteristic of welfare states of the OECD countries is a profound gender division of paid and unpaid work and care. This affects women's position in the family, the labour market and their access to social citizenship. Gender, Welfare State and the Market extends the discussion about the interrelationship between the welfare state, market and family and its impact on women's economic, social and political (in)dependence in the modern western welfare societies. The book goes beyond the narrow focus on the labour market - welfare state arrangement to explore the inter-relationship between production and social reproduction, paid and unpaid work and care within the framework of different welfare states. The volume specifically focuses on the shifting gender balance of employment and the restructuring of social care provision. Moreover, using feminist critiques of welfare state research, the book brings gender-specific as well as gender-relational approaches to the analysis of social citizenship, and the importance of the family and other non-public agencies for the provision of social care. Gender, Welfare State and Markets reveals that any analysis must take into account the care work provided informally or unpaid, in order to understand how welfare policies contribute to gender inequality in the family, labour market and with respect to social citizenship. This volume represents the present state of the art in 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. It will be a necessary resource for anyone involved in policy making, or research in economics, politics, sociology or gender studies.

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Author:   Thomas Boje (Roskilde University, Denmark) ,  Arnlaug Leira
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   v.4
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9780415235310

ISBN 10:   0415235316
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   26 October 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Gender, welfare state and the market: towards a new division of labour? Thomas P. Boje and Arnlaug Leira Section 1: Women's Employment and Welfare Systems 1. Paid work, unpaid work and welfare: towards a framework for studying welfare state variation Mary Daly 2. Citizenship, family policy and women's pattern of employment Thomas P. Boje and Anna-Lena Almqvist 3. Variation within post-fordist and liberal welfare state countries, women's work and social rights in Canada and the United States Cecilia Benoit 4. Family policy and mothers' employment: cross-national varitions Janet Gornick Section II. Family Policy - Work and Care in Different Welfare Systems 5. Gendered Policies: family obligations and social policies in Europe Chiara Saraceno 6. Combining work and family: Nordic policy reforms in the 1990s Arnlaug Leira 7. Child care policies in Japan: post-war developments and recent reforms Ito Peng 8. Changing obligations and expectations: lone parenthood and social policy Jane Millar 9. Solo mothers - how do they work and care in different welfare state regimes? Jørgen Elm Larsen 10. Labour, gender, and the state Evelyn Mahon

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Thomas P. Boje is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Umeå, Sweden. He is currently editor-in-chief for the ESA journal European Societies., Arnlaug Leira is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway.

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