1st Edition

Lone Mothers Between Paid Work and Care The Policy Regime in Twenty Countries

By Majella Kilkey Copyright 2000
322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

This title was first published in 2000. This is a study which compares and contrasts how lone mothers' relationships to paid work and care-giving are constructed across 20 countries, and with what outcomes for lone mothers' levels of economic well-being. In doing so, the book explores from an international perspective, the implications of the re-orientation of lone mothers' citizenship within the... Read more
List of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. Mainstream Comparative Welfare State Research: A Review, 3. Feminist Perspectives on Comparative Welfare State Research, 4. Lone Mothers as an Analytical Category in an Examination of How Welfare States Structure Women's Relationship to Paid Work and Care: Rationale and Methods, 5. Poor Mothers: Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, 6. Non-Poor Mothers: The Netherlands, 7. Poor Workers: Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and the United States, 8. Non-Poor Workers: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway and Sweden, 9. Patterns of Convergence and Divergence in the Configuration of Social Rights Attached to Paid Work, Care and Transitions Across Twenty Countries, 10. Conclusions, Appendices, Bibliography

Biography

Kilkey, Majella