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Author:   Margarita Leon
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   5.563kg
ISBN:  

9781137326508

ISBN 10:   1137326506
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   29 October 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction 1. Pressures Towards and Within Universalism: Conceptualising Change in Care Policy and Discourse 2. Cross-National Variations in Care and Care as a Labour Market 3. Migrant Care Work in Europe: Variety and Institutional Determinant 4. Explaining Differences in Childcare and Women's Employment Across Six European 'Gender Arrangements' 5. Support for Government Intervention in Child Care Across European Countries 6. Support to the Elderly and Caring Regimes: An Analysis of Patterns of Informal Support and their Determinants in Six European Countries 7. The Transnationalisation of Older Care in Austria 8. Nordic Care and Care Work in the Public Service Model of Denmark: Ideational Factors of Change 9. Day-Care Trends for Children Under Three Years in Germany 10. Long Term and Child Care Policies in Italy Between Familism and Privatisation 11. Transformation of Elderly Care in Poland 12. Early Childhood Education and Care Provision in Spain 13. Divisions of Care Labour: Care for Older People and Migrant Workers in England 14. Similar Trends, Different Responses: The Transformation of Care in European Societies

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Margarita León, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, Spain Marco Albertini, University of Bologna, Italy Heejung Chung, University of Kent, UK Zyab Ibañez, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, Spain Bart Meuleman, University of Leuven, Belgium August Österle, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria and Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary Emmanuele Pavolini, University of Macerata, Italy Jolanta Perek-Bia?as, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland and Jagiellonian University, Poland Birgit Pfau-Effinger, University of Hamburg, Germany and University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Mariola Raclaw, Warsaw University, Poland Costanzo Ranci, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Tine Rostgaard, Aalborg University, Denmark Stefania Sabatinelli, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Pia Schober, German Institute for Economic Research, Germany Isabel Shutes, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Franca van Hooren, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Amsterdam University College, The Netherlands

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