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Care work : gender, class, and the welfare state

Author: Madonna Harrington Meyer
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Madonna Harrington Meyer
ISBN: 041592541X 9780415925419 0415925428 9780415925426
OCLC Number: 43736745
Description: xii, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Historical perspective on care / Emily K. Abel --
History of men's caring / Scott Coltrane and Justin Galt --
Claiming the right to care / Sonya Michel --
Impact of social activism on gender identity and care work / Ann Herda-Rapp --
Cash in care / Clare Ungerson --
Caring by the book / Deborah Stone --
Conflicts of caring / Mary Tuominen --
Paid emotional care / Francesca M. Cancian --
International division of caring and cleaning work / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo --
Examining care at welfare's end / Stacey J. Oliker --
Paying for care / Demie Kurz --
Filling in the gaps in long term care insurance / Jennifer M. Mellor --
Shifting the burden back to families? / Madonna Harrington Meyer and Michelle Kesterke Storbakken --
Marketization and the struggling logics of (home) care in The Netherlands / Trudie Knijn --
Disability reform and women's caring work / Rannveig Traustadóttr --
"Making a way outta no way" / Assata Zerai --
Hope for the children / Brenda Krause Eheart and Martha Bauman Power.
Responsibility: edited by Madonna Harrington Meyer.
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