Format:
1 Online-Ressource (336 p.)
ISBN:
9781847421661
Content:
Recent social trends and policy developments have called into question the divide between the provision of income support and social care services. This book examines this in light of key trends.The book presents new evidence on the links between cash - whether from earnings from paid work, social security benefits, and payments for disabled people and carers - and social disadvantage, care and disability. It presents theoretical perspectives on the need for and provision of care, which some commentators have described as a 'new social risk' and offers new insights into traditional forms of risk, such as poverty, disability, access to credit and money management.It provides an analysis of childcare and informal support for sick, disabled or elderly people in the context of increasing female labour market participation and the introduction of cash allowances to pay for care and posits a new look at both disabled people and older people in their roles as active citizens, whose views and experiences should help shape both policy and practice.Cash and care is essential reading for students, lecturers and researchers in social policy, applied social science, social work, and health and social care
Note:
Front Matter
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Contents
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List of figures and tables
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Foreword
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Acknowledgements
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Notes on contributors
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Introduction
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Introduction
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New theoretical perspectives on care and policy
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Care and gender: have the arguments for recognising care work now been won?
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Research on care: what impact on policy and planning?
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‘Pseudo-democracy and spurious precision’: knowledge dilemmas in the new welfare state
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Traditional forms of disadvantage: new perspectives
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The costs of caring for a disabled child
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Disability, poverty and living standards: reviewing Australian evidence and policies
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Consumers without money: consumption patterns and citizenship among low-income families in Scandinavian welfare societies
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Affordable credit for low-income households
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Carers and employment in a work-focused welfare state
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Families, care work and the state
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Paying family caregivers: evaluating different models
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Developments in Austrian care arrangements: women between free choice and informal care
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When informal care becomes a paid job: the case of Personal Assistance Budgets in Flanders
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Better off in work? Work, security and welfare for lone mothers
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Reciprocity, lone parents and state subsidy for informal childcare
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Helping out at home: children’s contributions to sustaining work and care in lone-mother families
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From welfare subjects to active citizens
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Making connections: supporting new forms of engagement by marginalised groups
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Independent living: the role of the disability movement in the development of government policy
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Securing the dignity and quality of life of older citizens
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Conclusions
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Conclusions
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References
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Index
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In English
Additional Edition:
9781861348562
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print 9781861348562
Language:
English
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