Women's Work is Never Done: Comparative Studies in Care-Giving, Employment, and Social Policy Reform

by Bashevkin,Sylvia

• ISBN13: 9780415934800
• ISBN10: 041593480X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Social critics, policy makers, and the public in general frequently overlook the crucial status of women as the main recipients of welfare and as providers of paid and unpaid care. The eight original essays in this collection remedy this situation. By comparing welfare policy in advanced industrial countries and the welfare experiences of different populations of women--black or white, young and old--with that of the male experience, Sylvia Bashevkin and her contributors challenge the Moynihan report; the conservative fatherhood movement; and neoliberal philosophy, politics and practice. Women's Work is Never Doneadds a new dimension to the important public discussion of women's status as citizens, disparities in welfare reform, and poverty in a globalized world.

Author Biography

Sylvia Bashevkin is Director of the Canadian Studies Program at University. College and a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Conceptual Issues
Normative Concepts in Dutch Policies on Work and Care	p. 15
Confronting Women's Diversity
It's No Longer Just about Race: Social Constructions of American Citizenship in the Moynihan Report	p. 41
Paying for Caring: The Gendering Consequences of European Care Allowances for the Frail Elderly	p. 67
Anglo-American Welfare Reform
Poverty, Social Assistance, and the Employability of Mothers in Four Commonwealth Countries	p. 85
Road-Testing the Third Way: Single Mothers and Welfare Reform during the Clinton, Chretien, and Blair Years	p. 113
Policy Alternatives
Violating Women: Rights Abuses in the American Welfare Police State	p. 141
Mandatory "Marriage" or Obligatory Waged Work: Social Assistance and Single Mothers in Wisconsin and Ontario	p. 165
Contributors	p. 201
Index	p. 203
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