Care Work: Gender, Labor, and the Welfare State - Softcover

 
9780415925426: Care Work: Gender, Labor, and the Welfare State

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Care Work is a collection of original essays on the complexities of providing care. These essays emphasize how social policies intersect with gender, race, and class to alternately compel women to perform care work and to constrain their ability to do so. Leading international scholars from a range of disciplines provide a groundbreaking analysis of the work of caring in the context of the family, the market, and the welfare state.

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Madonna Harrington Meyer is Associate Professor of Sociology, and Senior Research Associate, at the Center for Policy Research, at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on old age policy in the United States and appears in such journals as the American SociologicalReview, Journal of Health and Social Policy, Gender andSociety, and Social Problems

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Care Work is a collection of original essays on the complexities of providing care. These essays emphasize how social policies intersect with gender, race, and class to alternately compel women to perform care work and to constrain their ability to do so. Leading international scholars from a range of disciplines provide a groundbreaking analysis of the work of caring in the context of the family, the market, and the welfare state.

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ISBN 10:  041592541X ISBN 13:  9780415925419
Verlag: Routledge, 2000
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