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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Changing welfare statesPublication details: [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (298 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9048501725
  • 9789048501724
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: How welfare states care.DDC classification:
  • 331.4/4094 22
LOC classification:
  • HD6055.2.E85 K74 2007eb
Other classification:
  • 71.80
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Working women and the question of care and culture in Europe -- Cinderella and Snow White are fairy tales : linking care and citizenship -- Policy or culture? Explaining women's employment differences in Europe -- Citizenship in practice : work, care, and income -- The right to give care : tax, social security, and leave -- The right to receive care : the state of childcare services -- After full-time mother care : ideals of care in policy -- How welfare states work : ideals of care in practice -- Conclusion : care and the cultural dimension of welfare states -- Appendix I. Governments in Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, and the UK 1980-2000 -- Appendix II. List of interviewees.
Summary: 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 walfare states of Europe.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: Working women and the question of care and culture in Europe -- Cinderella and Snow White are fairy tales : linking care and citizenship -- Policy or culture? Explaining women's employment differences in Europe -- Citizenship in practice : work, care, and income -- The right to give care : tax, social security, and leave -- The right to receive care : the state of childcare services -- After full-time mother care : ideals of care in policy -- How welfare states work : ideals of care in practice -- Conclusion : care and the cultural dimension of welfare states -- Appendix I. Governments in Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, and the UK 1980-2000 -- Appendix II. List of interviewees.

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 walfare states of Europe.

English.

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