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Title: WORKING MOTHERS IN EUROPE
A COMPARISON OF POLICIES AND PRACTICES
By: Ute Gerhard (Editor), Trudie Knijn (Editor), Anja Weckwert (Editor)
Format: Hardback

List price: £94.00


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ISBN 10: 1845422449
ISBN 13: 9781845422448
Publisher: EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD
Pub. date: 27 July, 2005
Pages: 192
Description: Combines comparative perspectives on social policies with analyses of mother's practices and explores the ways in which working mothers manage to combine care responsibilities and paid work on the basis of diverse public and private resources. This book will be useful to academics, researchers and students interested in the social sciences.
Synopsis: Working Mothers in Europe combines comparative perspectives on social policies with analyses of mothers' practices as evidenced in macro data and as explored in country based case studies. Social policy research has emphasised the impact of particular welfare systems and their policies on women's integration into the labour market and the organisation of care and work. However, the authors argue that policies are not the only factor, and, hitherto, we have very little knowledge of the precise interactions between social policies and social practices of individuals and families. In order to accurately grasp the cross-country variation of mothers' work and care arrangements in Europe, this book assembles a comparative approach towards welfare systems and social policies with an analysis of mothers' social practices in several European countries.Exploring the ways in which working mothers manage to combine care responsibilities and paid work on the basis of diverse public and private resources, this book will be invaluable to academics, researchers and students interested in the social sciences. More generally, the book will greatly appeal to those with an interest in women's employment, gender relations and the needs of children as matters that are tackled in the interaction between social policy and individuals.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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