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Contributors analyze the care economy in the developing world, at a moment when existing systems are under strain and new ideas are coming into focus.
  • Offers the first global, regionally diverse study of the invisible economy of care, including case studies from diverse regional contexts of Africa, Asia and Latin America
  • Frames the debate on care and highlights policy experimentation and ideas currently in flux
  • Includes new research and data on developing countries, showing how, where care options for the socially disadvantaged are limited, failing to socialize the costs of care exacerbates existing inequalities
  • Comes at a moment when, if not yet marked by a generalized care crisis, the world's existing systems are under strain and in need of rethinking
  • Features introductory chapters that set out the conceptual framework and findings on individual country studies

    Table of Contents
    Notes on Contributors vii

    1 Rethinking Care in a Development Context: An Introduction 1
    Shahra Razavi

    2 The Good, the Bad and the Confusing: The Political Economy of Social Care Expansion in South Korea 31
    Ito Peng

    3 South Africa: A Legacy of Family Disruption 51
    Debbie Budlender and Francie Lund

    4 Harsh Choices: Chinese Women’s Paid Work and Unpaid Care Responsibilities under Economic Reform 73
    Sarah Cook and Xiao-yuan Dong

    5 AWidening Gap? The Political and Social Organization of Childcare in Argentina 93
    Eleonor Faur

    6 Who Cares in Nicaragua? A Care Regime in an Exclusionary Social Policy Context 121
    Juliana Martínez Franzoni and Koen Voorend

    7 A Perfect Storm?Welfare, Care, Gender and Generations in Uruguay 149
    Fernando Filgueira, Magdalena Guti´errez and Jorge Papadópulos

    8 Stratified Familialism: The Care Regime in India through the Lens of Childcare 175
    Rajni Palriwala and Neetha N.

    9 Putting Two and Two Together? Early Childhood Education, Mothers’ Employment and Care Service Expansion in Chile and Mexico 205
    Silke Staab and Roberto Gerhard

    10 Going Global: The Transnationalization of Care 233
    Nicola Yeates

    Index 255

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 30/03/2012
      ISBN13: 9781444361537, 978-1444361537
      ISBN10: 1444361538
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Contributors analyze the care economy in the developing world, at a moment when existing systems are under strain and new ideas are coming into focus.
      • Offers the first global, regionally diverse study of the invisible economy of care, including case studies from diverse regional contexts of Africa, Asia and Latin America
      • Frames the debate on care and highlights policy experimentation and ideas currently in flux
      • Includes new research and data on developing countries, showing how, where care options for the socially disadvantaged are limited, failing to socialize the costs of care exacerbates existing inequalities
      • Comes at a moment when, if not yet marked by a generalized care crisis, the world's existing systems are under strain and in need of rethinking
      • Features introductory chapters that set out the conceptual framework and findings on individual country studies

        Table of Contents
        Notes on Contributors vii

        1 Rethinking Care in a Development Context: An Introduction 1
        Shahra Razavi

        2 The Good, the Bad and the Confusing: The Political Economy of Social Care Expansion in South Korea 31
        Ito Peng

        3 South Africa: A Legacy of Family Disruption 51
        Debbie Budlender and Francie Lund

        4 Harsh Choices: Chinese Women’s Paid Work and Unpaid Care Responsibilities under Economic Reform 73
        Sarah Cook and Xiao-yuan Dong

        5 AWidening Gap? The Political and Social Organization of Childcare in Argentina 93
        Eleonor Faur

        6 Who Cares in Nicaragua? A Care Regime in an Exclusionary Social Policy Context 121
        Juliana Martínez Franzoni and Koen Voorend

        7 A Perfect Storm?Welfare, Care, Gender and Generations in Uruguay 149
        Fernando Filgueira, Magdalena Guti´errez and Jorge Papadópulos

        8 Stratified Familialism: The Care Regime in India through the Lens of Childcare 175
        Rajni Palriwala and Neetha N.

        9 Putting Two and Two Together? Early Childhood Education, Mothers’ Employment and Care Service Expansion in Chile and Mexico 205
        Silke Staab and Roberto Gerhard

        10 Going Global: The Transnationalization of Care 233
        Nicola Yeates

        Index 255

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