Title Care work : gender, class, and the welfare state / edited by Madonna Harrington Meyer.

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New York : Routledge, 2000.

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 348 pages) : illustrations
	data file rda
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	This book is a collection of original essays on the meaning of providing care. The main goal of this book is to re-conceive the notion of care work, beginning with replacing the phrase 'caregiver' with the phrase 'care worker'.
Local Note	EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text
Subject	Public welfare -- United States.
	Social service -- United States.
	Sex role -- United States.
	United States -- Social policy.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
	Public welfare. (OCoLC)fst01083250
	Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
	Social policy. (OCoLC)fst01122738
	Social service. (OCoLC)fst01123192
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Seksen.
	Arbeid.
	Verzorgingsstaat.
	Informele zorg.
Added Author	Harrington Meyer, Madonna, 1959-
Other Form:	Print version: Care work. New York : Routledge, 2000 041592541X (DLC) 99048313 (OCoLC)43736745
ISBN	020390446X (electronic book)
	9780203904466 (electronic book)
	0203904451 (electronic book)
	9780203904459 (electronic book)
	9781135959586 (electronic book)
	1135959587 (electronic book)
	9780415925426 (PB)
	0415925428 (PB)
	9786610407361
	6610407363
	9780415925419
	041592541X

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