Global Variations in the Political and Social Economy of Care

Worlds Apart

• Author(s): Shahra Razavi, Silke Staab,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 270
• ISBN_10: 0415522501
  ISBN_13: 9780415522502
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development , Medical / Caregiving , Medical / Public Health , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare , Social Science / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Women's Studies , Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries ,

Description:... 1. Introduction : global variations in the political and social economy of care : worlds apart? / Shahra Razavi and Silke Staab -- 2. Democratic care politics in an age of limits / Joan Tronto -- 3. Advanced economy, modern welfare state and traditional care regimes : the case of Switzerland / Mascha Madörin, Brigitte Schnegg and Nadia Baghdadi -- 4. The struggle against familialism : reconfiguring the care diamond in Japan / Emiko Ochiai ... [et al.] -- 5. The boss, the worker, his wife and no babies : South Korean political and social economy of care in a context of institutional rigidities / Ito Peng -- 6. Beyond maternalism? : the political and social organization of childcare in Argentina / Valeria Esquivel and Eleonor Faur -- 7. The limits of family and community care : challenges for public policy in Nicaragua / Juliana Martinez-Franzoni and Koen Voorend -- 8. Care in South Africa : a legacy of family disruption / Debbie Budlender and Francie Lund -- 9. Unpaid and overstretched : coping with HIV et AIDs in Tanzania / Debbie Budlender and Ruth Meena -- 10. Between the state, market and family : structures, policies and practices of care in India / Rajni Palriwala and Neetha N. -- 11. Claims and frames in the making of care policies / Fiona Williams -- 12. Harmonizing global care policy? : care and the commission on the status of women / Kate Bedford -- 13. The globalisation of paid care labour migration : dynamics, impacts and policy / Nicola Yeates.