Contributors analyze the care economy in the developing world, at a moment when existing systems are under strain and new ideas are coming into focus. * Offers the first global, regionally diverse study of the "invisible economy" of care, including case studies from diverse regional contexts of Africa, Asia and Latin America* Frames the debate on care and highlights policy experimentation and ideas currently in flux * Includes new research and data on developing countries, showing how, where care options for the socially disadvantaged are limited, failing to socialize the costs of care exacerbates existing inequalities* Comes at a moment when, if not yet marked by a generalized care crisis, the world's existing systems are under strain and in need of rethinking* Features introductory chapters that set out the conceptual framework and findings on individual country studies, and a concluding chapter that draws out the transnational dimensions of care
| ISBN | 1444361538 | | Pages | 276 | | ISBN13 | 9781444361537
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 362 | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Published in | Chicester | | Imprint | Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) | | Series title | Development and Change Special Issues | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 227 | | Publication date | 30 Mar 2012 | | Width (mm) | 153 | | DEWEY | 362.7091724 | | Spine width (mm) | 13 | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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Notes on Contributors vii 1 Rethinking Care in a Development Context: An Introduction 1 Shahra Razavi 2 The Good, the Bad and the Confusing: The Political Economy of Social Care Expansion in South Korea 31 Ito Peng 3 South Africa: A Legacy of Family Disruption 51 Debbie Budlender and Francie Lund 4 Harsh Choices: Chinese Women's Paid Work and Unpaid Care Responsibilities under Economic Reform 73 Sarah Cook and Xiao-yuan Dong 5 AWidening Gap? The Political and Social Organization of Childcare in Argentina 93 Eleonor Faur 6 Who Cares in Nicaragua? A Care Regime in an Exclusionary Social Policy Context 121 Juliana Martinez Franzoni and Koen Voorend 7 A Perfect Storm?Welfare, Care, Gender and Generations in Uruguay 149 Fernando Filgueira, Magdalena Guti'errez and Jorge Papadopulos 8 Stratified Familialism: The Care Regime in India through the Lens of Childcare 175 Rajni Palriwala and Neetha N. 9 Putting Two and Two Together? Early Childhood Education, Mothers' Employment and Care Service Expansion in Chile and Mexico 205 Silke Staab and Roberto Gerhard 10 Going Global: The Transnationalization of Care 233 Nicola Yeates Index 255
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