Global variations in the political and social economy of care worlds apart - Razavi, Shahrashoub; Staab, Silke (New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2012)
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 Madáeorin, 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 & 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also available in print edition.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Keywords: Social service -- Case studies; Caregivers -- Case studies; Electronic books