A Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States?

1 Introduction: A care crisis in the Nordic welfare states? - Hanne Marlene Dahl and Lise Lotte Hansen


2 The 'care crisis': its scientific framing and silences - Hanne Marlene Dahl


3 Fraser's care crisis theory meets the Nordic welfare societies - Lise Lotte Hansen, Margunn Bjornholt and Laura Horn


4 Crisis of care: a problem of economisation, of technologisation or of politics of care? - Anne Kovalainen


5 Deteriorating working conditions in elderly care: an invisible crisis of care? - Anneli Stranz


6 Managerialism as a failing response to the care crisis - Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania, Antero Olakivi, Minna Zechner and Lena Naere


7 'We are here for you': care crisis and the (un)learning of good nursing - Carsten Juul Jensen and Steen Baagoe Nielsen


8 Professionalisation of social pedagogues under managerial control: caring for children in a time of care crisis - Steen Baagoe Nielsen


9 Raising quality in Norwegian early childhood centres: (re)producing the care crisis? - Birgitte Ljunggren


10 Conclusion: less caring and less gender- equal Nordic states - Lise Lotte Hansen and Hanne Marlene Dahl


11 Postscript: a care crisis in the time of COVID- 19 - Laura Horn, Carsten Juul Jensen and Birgitte Ljunggren