Care & Welfare
Work and Care under Pressure: Care Arrangements across Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Blanche Le Bihan, Claude Martin, Trudie Knijn
October 31, 2013
In many European countries tensions have arisen between the demands of the labor market and the caregiving responsibilities workers must fulfill at home. Examining these tensions, Work and Care under Pressure focuses on two groups of people who must juggle work and caregiving: parents of young ...
Professionals under Pressure: The Reconfiguration of Professional Work in Changing Public Services
1st Edition
Edited
By Mirko Noordegraaf, Bram Steijn
February 25, 2013
Over the past decade, public services have come under increasing pressure to perform like private-sector organisations. This study demonstrates that professionals have much leeway in coping with changes caused by IT developments, distributed knowledge and more demanding public which have all ...
AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal: A Kinship of Bones
1st Edition
By Patricia C. Henderson
December 30, 2011
In 2003-2006, Patricia Henderson lived in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal where she recorded the experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS. In this illuminating study, she recounts the concerns of rural people and explores local repertoires through which illness was folded into ...
Participation, Responsibility and Choice: Summoning the Active Citizen in Western European Welfare States
1st Edition
Edited
By Janet Newman, Evelien Tonkens
April 28, 2011
Responsibility, participation and choice are key policy framings of active citizenship, summoning the citizen to take on new roles in welfare state reform. This volume traces the emergence of new discourses and the ways in which they take up and rework struggles of social movements for greater ...