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Title Work and care under pressure : care arrangements across Europe / edited by Blanche Le Bihan, Claude Martin, Trudie Knijn
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (197 pages)
Series Care & Welfare
Care & welfare.
Contents Introduction: Workers under pressure and social care arrangements -- a research framework / Trudie Knijn, Claude Martin and Blanche Le Bihan -- Work-family balance in the Netherlands: work and care culture mediating between institutions and practices / Trudie Knijn and Barbara Da Roit -- Negotiating gender equality, atypical work hours and caring responsibilities: the case of Sweden / Sofia Björk, Ulla Björnberg and Hans Ekbrand -- Caregiving and paid work in Germany: the impact of social inequality / Wolfgang Keck, Christina Klenner, Sabine Neukirch and Chiara Saraceno -- Working caregivers 'living under pressure' in France / Blanche Le Bihan, Claude Martin and Arnaud Campéon -- Negotiating work and care in a changing welfare regime: the case of Portugal / Karin Wall, Sanda Samitca and Sónia Correia -- Blurring boundaries and clashing loyalties: working and caring in Italy / Manuela Naldini, Elisabetta Donati and Barbara Da Roit -- The changing mix of care in six European countries / Manuella Naldini, Karin Wall and Blanche Le Bihan
Summary In Europe, national states belonging to different welfare and caring regimes are experiencing tensions between labour market restructuring constraints and the caring responsibilities of the households. This book contributes to the analysis of these tensions by focusing on carers "under pressure" who have to juggle working and caring responsibilities. It investigates the care arrangements set up by bi-active parents of young children who have non-standard working hours and of adult children who hold a job and have caring responsibilities towards their old parent. Based on empirical evidence from six European countries, the book combines two levels of analysis: the policy level and the family level. It questions on the one hand the national policies in the sectors of childcare, elderly care and work-life balance, as well as the impact of gender equality measures promoted by European institutions; and on the other hand highlights the carers' practices and the impact of conciliation on everyday life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Work and family -- Europe
Caregivers -- Family relationships -- Europe
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Caregivers -- Family relationships
Work and family
Kinderbetreuung
Altenhilfe
Arbeitstätigkeit
Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf
Kinderbetreuung.
Altenhilfe.
Arbeitstätigkeit.
Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf.
Europe
Europa
Europa.
Form Electronic book
Author Le Bihan, Blanche, editor
Martin, Claude, editor
Knijn, Trudie, editor
ISBN 9789048519163
9048519160