The Culture of Care in Britain since the Second World War

Bernice Martin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

210 Seiten

2025
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-4817-3 (ISBN)

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This book examines the evolving value of caregiving in Britain, from the welfare state's inception to the present day. It explores the shifts in discourse surrounding care, charting key social, demographic, economic, political and cultural changes which have led to the current 'care crisis'.

The author examines five key themes: the tension within institutional Christianity between caring for the marginalized versus maintaining 'respectability'; the secularization of the value of care and its interaction with emerging social divisions; the persistent expectation that women bear the caregiving burden; the economic and social undervaluation of emotional and practical care work; and the challenges facing the care and health sectors. The author suggests that recalibrating the tax system to shift the burden from incomes to profits may be necessary for the survival of welfare systems under these new conditions.

Bernice Martin is Emeritus Reader in Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London.

1. Introduction: Apologia and Recollection

2. Secularization and the Second Great Commandment

3. Care for Others, Secularization and Britain’s New Identity Tribes

4. Caring, Gender and Secularization: The ‘Feminization of Piety’ and Its Legacy

5. The Popular Evangelical Narrative of Care and Some Modern Analogues

6. Feminism and the Gendering of Care

7. The Care Crisis

8. Rethinking Capitalism, the Future of Work and Role of Care

Erscheinungsdatum	19.02.2025
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5292-4817-5 / 1529248175
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-4817-3 / 9781529248173
Zustand	Neuware