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Overstretched provides fresh perspectives on the reality of European family life where care and paid work need to be woven together on a daily basis, offering an opportunity to discuss and evaluate care policies in a new light.

  • A collection of essays providing new perspectives on the reality of European family life where care and paid work need to be woven together on a daily basis.
  • Focuses on families who live under strained conditions, such as lone parent families, immigrant families, and families who care simultaneously for both their children and an elderly family member.
  • Based on interviews with families from Finland, France, Italy, Portugal and the UK.
  • Develops methods for doing comparative qualitative analysis in practice.
  • Offers new insights into the problems of gender balance in caring, and the significance of cultural notions and working hours.
  • Offers an opportunity to discuss and evaluate care policie

    Table of Contents
    Notes on Contributors.

    1. Editorial Introduction: European Families Stretched between the Demands of Work and Care (Jorma Sipilä and Teppo Kröger).

    2. Atypical Working Hours: Consequences for Childcare Arrangements (Blanche Le Bihan and Claude Martin).

    3. Managing Work and Care: A Difficult Challenge for Immigrant Families (Karin Wall and José Sâo José).

    4. Combining Work and Family in Two Welfare State Contexts: A Discourse Analytical Perspective (Katja Repo).

    5. Family Commitments under Negotiation: Dual Carers in Finland and Italy (Minna Zechner).

    6. Work and Care Strategies of European Families: Similarities or National Differences (Trine P. Larsen).

    7. Caregiving in Transition in Southern Europe: Neither Complete Altruists nor Free Riders (Simonetta Simoni and Rossana Trifiletti).

    8. Managing the Family: Productivity, Scheduling and the Male Veto (John Baldock and Jan Hadlow).

    Index.

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/05/2005
      ISBN13: 9781405132121, 978-1405132121
      ISBN10: 1405132124

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Overstretched provides fresh perspectives on the reality of European family life where care and paid work need to be woven together on a daily basis, offering an opportunity to discuss and evaluate care policies in a new light.

      • A collection of essays providing new perspectives on the reality of European family life where care and paid work need to be woven together on a daily basis.
      • Focuses on families who live under strained conditions, such as lone parent families, immigrant families, and families who care simultaneously for both their children and an elderly family member.
      • Based on interviews with families from Finland, France, Italy, Portugal and the UK.
      • Develops methods for doing comparative qualitative analysis in practice.
      • Offers new insights into the problems of gender balance in caring, and the significance of cultural notions and working hours.
      • Offers an opportunity to discuss and evaluate care policie

        Table of Contents
        Notes on Contributors.

        1. Editorial Introduction: European Families Stretched between the Demands of Work and Care (Jorma Sipilä and Teppo Kröger).

        2. Atypical Working Hours: Consequences for Childcare Arrangements (Blanche Le Bihan and Claude Martin).

        3. Managing Work and Care: A Difficult Challenge for Immigrant Families (Karin Wall and José Sâo José).

        4. Combining Work and Family in Two Welfare State Contexts: A Discourse Analytical Perspective (Katja Repo).

        5. Family Commitments under Negotiation: Dual Carers in Finland and Italy (Minna Zechner).

        6. Work and Care Strategies of European Families: Similarities or National Differences (Trine P. Larsen).

        7. Caregiving in Transition in Southern Europe: Neither Complete Altruists nor Free Riders (Simonetta Simoni and Rossana Trifiletti).

        8. Managing the Family: Productivity, Scheduling and the Male Veto (John Baldock and Jan Hadlow).

        Index.

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