By focusing on childcare and systematically comparing national
experiences in Belgium, France, Italy, Sweden, and the European
Union, Who Cares? provides detailed information on recent social
policies and a clear perspective on welfare state redesign. Many
countries have now designed childcare policies to reconcile family
and work. Some encourage parents to provide their own childcare by
granting parental leave; others encourage parents to stay at work
by supporting childcare services. Using the case of childcare
policy, the contributors to this volume examine how public policy
choices over the last three decades have been fashioned by specific
understandings of the gendered division of labour.
The authors of the country studies analyse specific childcare
strategies and place them within the larger context of state
approaches to women's roles. They argue that an examination of the
direction and the form of social spending, in this period when such
spending is under attack, contributes to our understanding of new
principles of citizenship as they have been developed and
articulated by governments.
Who Cares? highlights the connection between childcare and
employment, and makes a significant contribution to the literature
on citizenship and women's work.
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