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Restructuring Family Policies
Author | : Maureen Baker |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780802085719 |
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Recent years have seen significant changes in the social policies of many liberal welfare-states; this is especially true of social programs for families with children. Increasingly, governments are making family policy trade-offs, reducing support for some families but improving it for others. Why are such trade-offs occurring, and how do governments differ in their approach to family social policy? This study addresses these questions by examining the political, demographic, and socio-economic factors influencing the restructuring of family-related programs in OECD countries. Adopting a feminist political economy approach, Maureen Baker shows that while some governments encourage their citizens to see children as 'future resources,' and promote strong support for reproductive health programs, child welfare services, women's refuges, subsidized childcare, and pay equity, others make these claims while simultaneously reducing family incomes through the deregulation of labour markets and restrictions on income support. Ultimately, Baker demonstrates that nation states with the best outcomes for families offer a variety of social supports, which are increasingly important as global markets reduce economic security for some families while improving the financial situation of others. This study also explores strategies employed by states to incorporate or resist international pressures, and the reasons why some states tenaciously defend their family policy traditions while others restructure according to international guidelines. Drawing from nation-based research, cross-national studies, and international data bases, Restructuring Family Policies successfully integrates mainstream academic debates about restructuring welfare states with feminist research findings and current policy concerns.
Child Care Policy at the Crossroads
Author | : Sonya Michel,Rianne Mahon |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781136694042 |
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Whether childcare is seen as part of society's educational policy, welfare policy, or employment policy affects not only its form and content but also its public image. The contributors in this volume use current polices for the care of infants and preschool children to analyze debates and track the emergence of new state welfare practices across a variety of social and political configurations-and offer some conclusions about which methods work the best.
Governing Children Families and Education
Author | : M. Bloch,Thomas S. Popkewitz,K. Holmlund,I. Moqvist |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2016-09-27 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781137080233 |
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This is a collection of essays that address the international changes in welfare policy. The book discusses the new patterns of governing associated with the notions of welfare, care, and education that emerge during the late Twentieth and early Twenty-first-centuries. The issues examined are, among others, the role of international donors and their emphasis on efficiency and lower social subsidies, international migration and its impact on welfare policy inclusions (and exclusions), and national policy change. While representing many different locations and traditions, contributors work within a variety of critical theoretical perspectives that critique our cultural ways of reasoning about the care and education of the child, the role and practice of the state, and the social and cultural construction of citizenship and nationhood.
Economic Restructuring and Family Well being in Rural America
Author | : Kristin E. Smith,Ann R. Tickamyer |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780271048611 |
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"A compilation of policy-relevant research by a multidisciplinary group of scholars on the state of families in rural America in the twenty-first century. Examines the impact of economic restructuring on rural Americans and provides policy recommendations for addressing the challenges they face"--Provided by publisher.
Mothers Families or Children Family Policy in Poland Hungary and Romania 1945 2020
Author | : Tomasz Inglot |
Publsiher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2022-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822988670 |
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Mothers, Families, or Children? is the first comparative-historical study of family policies in Poland, Hungary, and Romania from 1945 until the eve of the global pandemic in 2020. The book highlights the emergence, consolidation, and perseverance of three types of family policies based on “mother-orientation” in Poland, “family orientation” in Hungary, and “child-orientation” in Romania. It uses a new theoretical framework to identify core and contingent clusters of benefits and services in each country and trace their development across time and under different political regimes, before and after 1989. It also examines and compares policy continuity and change with special attention to institutions, ideas, and actors involved in decision making and reform. As family policies continue to evolve in the era of European Union membership and new governmental and societal actors emerge, this study reveals mechanisms that help preserve core family policy clusters while allowing reform in contingent ones in each country.
Family Policy and the American Safety Net
Author | : Janet Zollinger Giele |
Publsiher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2012-07-25 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9781412998949 |
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Family Policy and the American Safety Net shows how families adapt to economic and demographic change. Government programs provide a safety net against the new risks of modern life. Family policy includes any public program that helps families perform their four universal obligations of caregiving, income provision, shelter, and transmission of citizenship. In America, this means that child care, health care, Social Security, unemployment insurance, housing, the quality of neighborhood schools, and anti-discrimination and immigration measures are all key elements of a de facto family policy. Yet many students and citizens are unaware of the history and importance of these programs. This book argues that family policy is as important as economic and defense policy to the future of the nation, a message that is relevant to students in the social sciences, social policy, and social work as well as to the public at large. .
State and Family in Singapore
Author | : Janet W. Salaff |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : UVA:X001359887 |
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Milk Price Support Program and Other Policies Affecting the U S Dairy Industry
Author | : National Commission on Dairy Policy (U.S.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Agricultural price supports |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105112085548 |
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