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Title Family change and family policies in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States / edited by Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn
Published Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997

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Description xi, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Family change and family policies in the West ; v. 1
Family change and family policies in the West ; v. 1
Contents Introduction / Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn -- Great Britain / Edited by Stein Ringen -- Introduction: Historical Roots of Family Policy. 1. The Formation of Families. 2. Families and the Division of Labour: Employment and Family Work. 3. The Income of Families: Earnings and Transfers. 4. Families and Social Services. 5. The Politics and Institutionalization of Family Policy -- Conclusion: The Profile of Family Policy -- Canada / Maureen Baker and Shelley Phipps -- Introduction: Historical Roots of Family Policy. 1. The Formation of Families. 2. Families and the Division of Labour: Employment and Family Work. 3. The Income of Families: Earnings and Transfers. 4. Families, Health Care, and Social Services. 5. The Politics and Institutionalization of Family Policies -- New Zealand / Ian Shirley, Peggy Koopman-Boyden and Ian Pool [et al.] -- Introduction: An Historical Review. 1. The Formation of Families. 2. The Family and the Labour Market
3. Financial Assistance to Families. 4. Families and Social Services. 5. Family Policy and Political Economy -- United States / Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn -- Introduction: Themes in the American Tradition. 1. The Formation of Families. 2. Families and the Division of Labour: Employment and Family Work. 3. The Income of Families: Earnings and Transfers. 4. Families and Social Services. 5. The Politics and Institutionalization of Family Policy
Notes Bibliography: p422-456. _ Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [422]-456) and index
Notes Family change and family policies in the West no:1
Subject Families -- Economic aspects -- Commonwealth countries.
Families -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Family demography -- Commonwealth countries.
Family demography -- United States.
Families.
Family policy -- Commonwealth countries.
Family policy -- Canada.
Family policy -- Great Britain.
Family policy -- New Zealand.
Family policy -- United States.
Family policy.
Family services.
Social change.
Author Kahn, Alfred J., 1919-2009.
Kamerman, Sheila B.
Mannheim Centre for European Social Research
LC no. 98156452
ISBN 019829025X
0199618577