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- Combines theoretical discussions with empirical findings
- Challenges the dominant welfare regime approach
- Is the first to analyze and compare welfare policy and policy making at the local level
Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 59)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Women’s Local Labour Markets
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Local Welfare Policy Making
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Local Childcare Policy Making and Service Provision
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Local Care Policies and Systems for Older People
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About this book
This book focuses on how EU welfare policies are implemented at the local level in 11 European cities and how local policy making addresses women’s care responsibilities. The book studies the complex combination of and the relationships between local political processes, policies, institutions, structural conditions and outputs, as well as outcomes for the women’s labour market integration. It demonstrates how cultural settings and multi-level governance patterns form the “playground” for local policy makers to formulate their welfare policies concerning service provision. The book further demonstrates how local production systems and the situation of the local labour market influence the prospects that women have in working and caring.
EU welfare policy promotes the labour market integration of women as well as gender equality. The provision of adequate care services is vital in supporting women’s employment. Within comparative welfare research, the focus has been on the national welfare systems and policies even if care services are overwhelmingly provided by local authorities that in many EU member states enjoy considerable autonomy. This book fills the gap in understanding local welfare policy making from a comparative perspective.
Keywords
- Local Child Care Policy
- Local care policies and systems for older people
- Local elderly care systems in Europe
- Women's Local Labour Markets
- care for older people
- comparative welfare research
- local welfare policies in the city of Leeds
- local welfare policy making
- role of families in providing care for children and old people.
- the national welfare systems and policies
- welfare policy research
- women’s labour market integration
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Editors and Affiliations
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Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Dagmar Kutsar
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Dept. of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
Marjo Kuronen
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Local Welfare Policy Making in European Cities
Editors: Dagmar Kutsar, Marjo Kuronen
Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16163-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16162-4Published: 11 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35766-9Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16163-1Published: 24 April 2015
Series ISSN: 1387-6570
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 221
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Social Policy