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Working mothers in Europe : a comparison of policies and practices
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Working mothers in Europe : a comparison of policies and practices

Author: Ute Gerhard; Trudie Knijn; Anja Weckwert
Publisher: Cheltenham, UK ; Northhampton, MA : Edward Elgar, ©2005.
Series: Globalization and welfare.
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"Exploring the ways in which working mothers manage to combine care responsibilities and paid work on the basis of diverse public and private resources, this book will be invaluable to academics, researchers and students interested in the social sciences. More generally, the book will greatly appeal to those with an interest in women's employment, gender relations and the needs of children as matters that are  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Cross-cultural studies
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Working mothers in Europe.
Cheltenham, UK ; Northhampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2005
(OCoLC)655187986
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ute Gerhard; Trudie Knijn; Anja Weckwert
ISBN: 1845422449 9781845422448
OCLC Number: 59148168
Description: viii, 174 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction : Social practices and social policies / Ute Gerhard, Trudie Knijn and Anja Weckwert --
Mothers between individualisation and institution : cultural images of welfare policy / Ute Gerhard --
Caring for children : the logics of public action / Marie-Thérèse Letablier and Ingrid Jönsson --
Strategies, everyday practices and social change / Constanza Tobío and Rossana Trifiletti --
Kinship and informal support : care resources for the first generation of working mothers in Norway, Italy and Spain / Arnlaug Leira, Constanza Tobío and Rossana Trifiletti --
Care packages : the organisation of work and care by working mothers / Trudie Knijn, Ingrid Jönsson and Ute Klammer --
Women's participation in European labour markets / Mary Daly and Ute Klammer.
Series Title: Globalization and welfare.
Responsibility: edited by Ute Gerhard, Trudie Knijn, Anja Weckwert.

Abstract:

"Exploring the ways in which working mothers manage to combine care responsibilities and paid work on the basis of diverse public and private resources, this book will be invaluable to academics, researchers and students interested in the social sciences. More generally, the book will greatly appeal to those with an interest in women's employment, gender relations and the needs of children as matters that are tackled in the interaction between social policy and individuals."--BOOK JACKET.

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by reina (WorldCat user on 2006-09-22)

i married a man in estern europe that moved me here, he got arrested for violent assault towared me and my child, then opteint a citzenship, and after 3 years killed himself . do i have any rights?

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