Dear all,
Please take note of the following new publication:
Jorma Sipilä, Katja Repo & Tapio Rissanen (eds.) (2010)
Cash-for-Childcare: The Consequences for Caring Mothers. Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar.
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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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.
http://www.e-elgar.com/Bookentry_Main.lasso?id=14133
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