ABSTRACT
This volume represents the present state of theoretical debate in welfare state scholarship, drawing on research from western Europe, North America and Japan. It therefore provides a valuable balance of breadth and detail from the broad international overview to comparisons between specific welfare states and national case studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|119 pages
Women's employment and welfare systems
chapter 1|19 pages
Paid work, unpaid work and welfare
Towards a framework for studying welfare state variation
chapter 3|19 pages
Variation within post-Fordist and liberal welfare state countries
Women's work and social rights in Canada and the United States
chapter 4|23 pages
Welfare states, labour markets and gender relations in transition
The decline of the Scandinavian model?
part II|117 pages
Family policy — work and care in different welfare systems
