This accessible book explores the configuration of care, work and welfare in the major European Union countries and in the USA. Bringing together the most recent empirical data available, it examines the impact of the welfare state on women's and men's roles and power relations, and on their access to resources.

Mary Daly is Professor of Sociology at Queen's University, Belfast; Katherine Rake is Director of the Fawcett Society.

List of Tables

viii

List of Figures

x

Acknowledgements

xi

Introduction

1

(9)

Studying the Welfare State and Gender: The Insights of Existing Work

10

(22)

Conceptualizing the Welfare State

11

(4)

The Relationship between the Welfare State and Gender

15

(5)

Developing an Agency Perspective on the Welfare State and Gender Relations

20

(4)

Comparison and the Study of the Welfare State and Gender Relations

24

(6)

Overview

30

(2)

Framework of Analysis

32

(16)

Defining the Welfare State

32

(5)

Defining Gender and Gender Relations

37

(2)

The Welfare State and Gender Relations - Towards a Framework of Analysis

39

(3)

The Approach to Comparison

42

(4)

Overview

46

(2)

Gender and the Provision of Care

48

(22)

The Governance of Care

49

(5)

The Provision of Care

54

(4)

Income and Other Implications of Caring

58

(8)

Power Relations and Contests Associated with Gender and Care

66

(2)

Overview

68

(2)

Gender and Work

70

(23)

The Organization of Work and the Links to the Welfare State

71

(3)

Women's Relationship to Employment

74

(15)

Power Relations and Contests Associated with Gender and Work

89

(2)

Overview

91

(2)

Welfare, Household Resources and Gender Relations

93

(25)

Gender Relations and Welfare State Redistribution

94

(2)

The Gender Dimension of Income and Poverty

96

(17)

Power Relations and Contests Arising around Gender and the Distribution of Income

113

(2)

Overview

115

(3)

Individual Resources and Household Redistribution

118

(20)

Individual and Family Resources, Welfare and Gender Relations

119

(3)

Individual Resources and the Gender Resource Balance

122

(11)

Power Relations and Contests Arising around Individual Resources and the Gender Resource Balance

133

(3)

Overview

136

(2)

Towards an Explanation of National Configurations and Cross-national Patterns

138

(26)

National Configurations of the Welfare State and Gender Relations

138

(14)

Cross-national Similarities and Differences

152

(6)

The Significance of the Welfare State for Cross-national Variation

158

(3)

Overview

161

(3)

Conclusions and Overview

164

(15)

Studying the Welfare State and Gender in a Comparative Perspective

164

(4)

Pressure Points around Care, Work and Welfare and the Challenges for Future Policy

168

(11)

Technical Appendix

179

(6)

Notes

185

(6)

References

191

(13)

Index

204

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

Gender and the Welfare State Care, Work and Welfare in Europe and the USA

9780745622323

0745622321

Supplemental Materials

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

Rewards Program