Cash-for-Childcare

The Consequences for Caring Mothers

Jorma Sipilä, Katja Repo, Tapio Rissanen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2010
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84980-423-3 (ISBN)

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This insightful book examines the meaning of, and impacts on, cash-for-care systems for mothers of small children. The contributors present a comprehensive overview of the major political and economic contradictions, theoretical debates concerning cash-for-care, and explore the possibility of implementing it into the social policy system. In social research, cash-for-care is often described as a reactionary benefit that operates against the women's interests. Economists, in turn, ask why the state should pay for reducing female employment and for care that is given anyway. Nevertheless, `woman-friendly' Nordic countries have introduced cash-for-childcare schemes and many parents are willing to use them. The book examines the payment schemes as a complex whole, where on the one hand the scheme responds to the parents' desires, but on the other, produces some questionable consequences. The authors highlight conditions in which cash-for-childcare schemes would not reflect any anachronism but instead will function as a useful tool of contemporary social policy.

This unique book provides a broad theoretical and empirical view on cash-for-childcare. It will prove invaluable for academics of social work and policy. Politicians, social policy administrators and labour market researchers interested in family issues will also find this important resource an enriching read.

Edited by Jorma Sipilä, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Katja Repo, Tampere Centre for Childhood, Youth and Family Research, Tampere University and Tapio Rissanen, Research Fellow, Tampere University, Finland

Contents:

1. Introduction
Jorma Sipilä, Katja Repo and Tapio Rissanen

2. Cash vs Care: A Child and Family Policy Issue
Sheila B. Kamerman and Shirley Gatenio Gabel

3. Cash-for-Childcare: Unnecessary Traditionalism or a Contemporary Necessity?
Jorma Sipilä, Katja Repo, Tapio Rissanen and Niina Viitasalo

4. Finnish Child Home Care Allowance – Users’ Perspectives and Perceptions
Katja Repo

5. Cash-for-Childcare Schemes in Sweden: History, Political Contradictions and Recent Developments
Anita Nyberg

6. Cash-for-Care in Norway: Take-up, Impacts and Consequences for Mothers
Marit Rønsen and Ragni Hege Kitterød

7. Rationalities of Cash-for-Childcare: The Nordic Case
Minna Rantalaiho

8. The Paradox of Cash-for-Childcare: Are There Ways to Solve the Dilemma?
Katja Repo, Jorma Sipilä, Tapio Rissanen and Niina Viitasalo

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2010
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-84980-423-0 / 1849804230
ISBN-13	978-1-84980-423-3 / 9781849804233
Zustand	Neuware