Children, Changing Families and Welfare StatesJane Lewis Edward Elgar Publishing, 1. jan. 2008 - 328 síður As welfare states grow up, they begin to think more carefully about their future. Jane Lewis is showing them how best to do so. This stellar collection of articles by top European scholars combines creative thinking about the new social investment state w |
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PART I Children as a social investment | 25 |
consequences for children | 27 |
investing in the future or promoting wellbeing in the present? | 51 |
PART II Paying for children | 67 |
4 Child benefit packages in 15 countries in 2004 | 69 |
ambivalent trends | 90 |
current issues and implications of policy debates | 110 |
8 From a childcare to a pedagogical discourse or putting care in its place | 154 |
competing frames | 173 |
PART IV Children and the search for a worklife balance | 199 |
policy responses to working time flexibility in France | 201 |
11 Work life balance from the childrens perspective | 220 |
work and childcare in the flexible UK | 243 |
13 Men and womens agency and capabilities to create a worklife balance in diverse and changing institutional contexts | 267 |
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PART III Caring for children | 135 |
7 Cultures of childhood and the relationship of care and employment in European welfare states | 137 |
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