2007, ISBN: 9053569758

[EAN: 9789053569757], [SC: 5.0], Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2007. Paperback. 300 pp. (Amsterdam University Press - Changing Welfare States Series).- A social revolution has taken place in Europe. Women's employment patterns changed drastically the last decades. But they are still different across Europe. Welfare state scholars often presume that diversity and change in women's employment across Europe is based on financial (dis) incentive structures embedded in welfare states. This book shows, by in depth analyses 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 welfare states (the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium) that this logic does not hold. A mother is not primarily the homo economicus welfare state scholars tend to presume. 'to work or to care 'is above all a moral predicament. What explains better the differences in Europe is to place care centrally and analyse welfare states as cultural agents.In the case of caring and paid employment, welfare states send culturally-defined moral images of good-enough caring in the form of ideals of care. An ideal of care implies a definition of what is good care and who gives it. These ideals of care are embedded in welfare states and their regulations, laws and implementation processes. Each welfare state promotes specific ideals of care. Cultural explanations downplay the role of the state too much. Culture, as is shown, is located within rather than outside the welfare state. The welfare state is not only a notary drawing contracts between the state and citizens or a merchant connecting supply and demand, but also a priest. This book shows, by studying care policy in welfare states, that social policy has an impact on women's and men's division of labour and care. But especially when welfare states are not seen as a financial structures only, but as cult Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9789053569757. Keywords : ,

ISBN: 9789053569757

298 Seiten, Though women?s employment patterns in Europe have been changing drastically over several decades, the repercussions of this social revolution are just beginning to garner serious attention. Many scholars have presumed that diversity and change in women?s employment is based on the structures of welfare states and women?s responses to economic incentives and disincentives to join the workforce; How Welfare States Care provides in-depth analysis of women?s employment and childcare patterns, taxation, social security, and maternity leave provisions in order to show this logic does not hold. Combining economic, sociological, and psychological insights, Kremer demonstrates that care is embedded in welfare states and that European women are motivated by culturally and morally-shaped ideals of care that are embedded in welfare states?and less by economic reality. Political Science, Amsterdam University Press

2014, ISBN: 9789053569757

Amsterdam University Press, 2014. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9789053569757, Amsterdam University Press, 2014

ISBN: 9789053569757

Paperback, [PU: Amsterdam University Press], 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., Sociology

2007, ISBN: 9789053569757

Amsterdam University Press, 2007-08-15. Paperback. Good., Amsterdam University Press, 2007-08-15