Editors:
- Includes case studies from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland, and Hungary
- Discusses influence on established welfare policies and care arrangements in (post)egalitarian welfare states
- The first collection of case studies including and creating dialogue between Nordic and post-socialist societies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (PSFL)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This edited volume discusses and analyses the impact of neoliberal policies and ideologies on public and private care practices in Nordic, Central, and East European welfare states. Through new conceptualizations of care practices, chapters take the reader directly into the homes, workplaces, and everyday life of urban and rural residents throughout Europe. The book argues that common neoliberal responses to care crises are not about revaluing care but rather a normalization of precarious work as expressed in moving care from public institutions to families within private homes. Featuring contributions from eight countries, chapters contribute to research on gender, care, migration, and welfare policies by discussing how recent developments in global capitalism and neoliberal policies influence welfare policies and care arrangements in post-egalitarian and post-socialist societies in Europe.
Reviews
—Arlie Russell Hochschild is Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley, USA, and the author of The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market and co-editor (with Barbara Ehrenreich) of Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Lena Näre
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Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Lise Widding Isaksen
About the editors
Lena Näre is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research focuses on care work, migration, transnationalism, aging, and asylum. She is Editor-in-Chief of Nordic Journal of Migration Research and Associate Editor of Global Social Challenges Journal.
Lise Widding Isaksen is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research interests include gender, care, social stratification, migration, and welfare/state politics. She teaches sociology of the family, migration, and the welfare state.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Care Loops and Mobilities in Nordic, Central, and Eastern European Welfare States
Editors: Lena Näre, Lise Widding Isaksen
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92889-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92888-9Published: 04 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92891-9Published: 05 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92889-6Published: 03 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 205
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Comparative Social Policy, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Care, Gender Studies