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Care Work in Europe

Current Understandings and Future Directions

Care Work in Europe

Current Understandings and Future Directions

ByClaire Cameron, Peter Moss
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2007
eBook Published 6 September 2007
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9780203945629
Pages 176 pages
eBook ISBN 9781134159857
SubjectsDevelopment Studies, Environment, Social Work, Urban Studies, Education, Health and Social Care, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
KeywordsCare Workers, Good Quality Employment, Informal Care, Jensen 2004b, Danish Pedagogue
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Cameron, C., Moss, P. (2007). Care Work in Europe. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203945629
ABOUT THIS BOOK

Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and understood. Drawing on a study which looks at care work across the life course in a number of European countries, this book:

  • explores the context and emerging policy agendas
  • provides an analysis of how different countries and sectors understand and structure care work
  • examines key issues, such as the extreme gendering of the workforce, increasing problems of recruitment and turnover, what kinds of knowledge and education the work requires and what conditions are needed to ensure good quality employment
  • considers possible future directions, including the option of a generic professional worker, educated to work across the life course and whether ‘care’ will, or should, remain a distinct field of policy and employment.

This groundbreaking comparative study provokes much-needed new thinking about the current situation and future direction of care work, an area essential to the social and economic well-being of Europe.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|25 pages
Introduction: Context and methods
View abstract
chapter 2|26 pages
The care workforce: structure, profile and work conditions
View abstract
chapter 3|29 pages
What is care work about? Understandings and practices
View abstract
chapter 4|20 pages
Education and competence for care work
View abstract
chapter 5|20 pages
Gender issues for male and female care workers
View abstract
chapter 6|19 pages
Quality of employment and job satisfaction
View abstract
chapter 7|17 pages
Conclusions, questions and implications
View abstract

Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and understood. Drawing on a study which looks at care work across the life course in a number of European countries, this book:

  • explores the context and emerging policy agendas
  • provides an analysis of how different countries and sectors understand and structure care work
  • examines key issues, such as the extreme gendering of the workforce, increasing problems of recruitment and turnover, what kinds of knowledge and education the work requires and what conditions are needed to ensure good quality employment
  • considers possible future directions, including the option of a generic professional worker, educated to work across the life course and whether ‘care’ will, or should, remain a distinct field of policy and employment.

This groundbreaking comparative study provokes much-needed new thinking about the current situation and future direction of care work, an area essential to the social and economic well-being of Europe.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|25 pages
Introduction: Context and methods
View abstract
chapter 2|26 pages
The care workforce: structure, profile and work conditions
View abstract
chapter 3|29 pages
What is care work about? Understandings and practices
View abstract
chapter 4|20 pages
Education and competence for care work
View abstract
chapter 5|20 pages
Gender issues for male and female care workers
View abstract
chapter 6|19 pages
Quality of employment and job satisfaction
View abstract
chapter 7|17 pages
Conclusions, questions and implications
View abstract
CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK

Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and understood. Drawing on a study which looks at care work across the life course in a number of European countries, this book:

  • explores the context and emerging policy agendas
  • provides an analysis of how different countries and sectors understand and structure care work
  • examines key issues, such as the extreme gendering of the workforce, increasing problems of recruitment and turnover, what kinds of knowledge and education the work requires and what conditions are needed to ensure good quality employment
  • considers possible future directions, including the option of a generic professional worker, educated to work across the life course and whether ‘care’ will, or should, remain a distinct field of policy and employment.

This groundbreaking comparative study provokes much-needed new thinking about the current situation and future direction of care work, an area essential to the social and economic well-being of Europe.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|25 pages
Introduction: Context and methods
View abstract
chapter 2|26 pages
The care workforce: structure, profile and work conditions
View abstract
chapter 3|29 pages
What is care work about? Understandings and practices
View abstract
chapter 4|20 pages
Education and competence for care work
View abstract
chapter 5|20 pages
Gender issues for male and female care workers
View abstract
chapter 6|19 pages
Quality of employment and job satisfaction
View abstract
chapter 7|17 pages
Conclusions, questions and implications
View abstract

Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and understood. Drawing on a study which looks at care work across the life course in a number of European countries, this book:

  • explores the context and emerging policy agendas
  • provides an analysis of how different countries and sectors understand and structure care work
  • examines key issues, such as the extreme gendering of the workforce, increasing problems of recruitment and turnover, what kinds of knowledge and education the work requires and what conditions are needed to ensure good quality employment
  • considers possible future directions, including the option of a generic professional worker, educated to work across the life course and whether ‘care’ will, or should, remain a distinct field of policy and employment.

This groundbreaking comparative study provokes much-needed new thinking about the current situation and future direction of care work, an area essential to the social and economic well-being of Europe.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|25 pages
Introduction: Context and methods
View abstract
chapter 2|26 pages
The care workforce: structure, profile and work conditions
View abstract
chapter 3|29 pages
What is care work about? Understandings and practices
View abstract
chapter 4|20 pages
Education and competence for care work
View abstract
chapter 5|20 pages
Gender issues for male and female care workers
View abstract
chapter 6|19 pages
Quality of employment and job satisfaction
View abstract
chapter 7|17 pages
Conclusions, questions and implications
View abstract
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK

Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and understood. Drawing on a study which looks at care work across the life course in a number of European countries, this book:

  • explores the context and emerging policy agendas
  • provides an analysis of how different countries and sectors understand and structure care work
  • examines key issues, such as the extreme gendering of the workforce, increasing problems of recruitment and turnover, what kinds of knowledge and education the work requires and what conditions are needed to ensure good quality employment
  • considers possible future directions, including the option of a generic professional worker, educated to work across the life course and whether ‘care’ will, or should, remain a distinct field of policy and employment.

This groundbreaking comparative study provokes much-needed new thinking about the current situation and future direction of care work, an area essential to the social and economic well-being of Europe.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|25 pages
Introduction: Context and methods
View abstract
chapter 2|26 pages
The care workforce: structure, profile and work conditions
View abstract
chapter 3|29 pages
What is care work about? Understandings and practices
View abstract
chapter 4|20 pages
Education and competence for care work
View abstract
chapter 5|20 pages
Gender issues for male and female care workers
View abstract
chapter 6|19 pages
Quality of employment and job satisfaction
View abstract
chapter 7|17 pages
Conclusions, questions and implications
View abstract

Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and understood. Drawing on a study which looks at care work across the life course in a number of European countries, this book:

  • explores the context and emerging policy agendas
  • provides an analysis of how different countries and sectors understand and structure care work
  • examines key issues, such as the extreme gendering of the workforce, increasing problems of recruitment and turnover, what kinds of knowledge and education the work requires and what conditions are needed to ensure good quality employment
  • considers possible future directions, including the option of a generic professional worker, educated to work across the life course and whether ‘care’ will, or should, remain a distinct field of policy and employment.

This groundbreaking comparative study provokes much-needed new thinking about the current situation and future direction of care work, an area essential to the social and economic well-being of Europe.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|25 pages
Introduction: Context and methods
View abstract
chapter 2|26 pages
The care workforce: structure, profile and work conditions
View abstract
chapter 3|29 pages
What is care work about? Understandings and practices
View abstract
chapter 4|20 pages
Education and competence for care work
View abstract
chapter 5|20 pages
Gender issues for male and female care workers
View abstract
chapter 6|19 pages
Quality of employment and job satisfaction
View abstract
chapter 7|17 pages
Conclusions, questions and implications
View abstract
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