Overstretched
European Families Up Against the Demands of Work and Care
Published on 4. February 2009
176 pages
978-1-4051-5194-8 (ISBN)
Description
Overstretched provides fresh perspectives on the reality ofEuropean family life where care and paid work need to be woventogether on a daily basis, offering an opportunity to discuss andevaluate care policies in a new light.
* A collection of essays providing new perspectives on thereality of European family life where care and paid work need to bewoven together on a daily basis.
* Focuses on families who live under strained conditions, such aslone parent families, immigrant families, and families who caresimultaneously for both their children and an elderly familymember.
* Based on interviews with families from Finland, France, Italy,Portugal and the UK.
* Develops methods for doing comparative qualitative analysis inpractice.
* Offers new insights into the problems of gender balance incaring, and the significance of cultural notions and workinghours.
* Offers an opportunity to discuss and evaluate care policies ina new light.
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Teppo Kroeger | Jorma Sipilae
Overstretched
European Families Up Against the Demands of Work and Care
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Persons
Teppo Kröger is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at theUniversity of Jyväskylä and Adjunct Professor at theUniversity of Tampere in Finland. His previous publications includeComparative Research on Social Care (2001) and Families,Work and Social Care in Europe (2003).
Jorma Sipilä is Professor of Social Policy andSocial Work at the University of Tampere in Finland. His previouspublications include The Young, the Old and the State: SocialCare Systems in Five Industrial Countries (2003) and SocialCare Services: The Key to the Scandinavian Welfare Model(1997).
Content
Notes on Contributors.
1. Editorial Introduction: European Families Stretched betweenthe Demands of Work and Care (Jorma Sipilä and TeppoKröger).
2. Atypical Working Hours: Consequences for ChildcareArrangements (Blanche Le Bihan and Claude Martin).
3. Managing Work and Care: A Difficult Challenge for ImmigrantFamilies (Karin Wall and José Sâo José).
4. Combining Work and Family in Two Welfare State Contexts: ADiscourse Analytical Perspective (Katja Repo).
5. Family Commitments under Negotiation: Dual Carers in Finlandand Italy (Minna Zechner).
6. Work and Care Strategies of European Families: Similaritiesor National Differences (Trine P. Larsen).
7. Caregiving in Transition in Southern Europe: Neither CompleteAltruists nor Free Riders (Simonetta Simoni and RossanaTrifiletti).
8. Managing the Family: Productivity, Scheduling and the MaleVeto (John Baldock and Jan Hadlow).
Index.
