Seen, Heard and Counted: Rethinking Care in a Development Context
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Seen, Heard and Counted: Rethinking Care in a Development Context
Author:
Razavi, Shahra
Subjects:
Caregivers
;
Caring
;
Child care
;
Developing
countries
;
Division of labour
;
Family policy
;
Informal sector
;
Sexual division of labor
;
Social economics
;
Social policy
;
Work and family
;
Working mothers
Description:
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 AmericaFrames 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 inequalitiesComes 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 rethinkingFeatures introductory chapters that set out the conceptual framework and findings on individual country studies, and a concluding chapter that draws out the transnational dimensions of care
Related Titles:
Development and Change Special Issues
Publisher:
Newark: Wiley-Blackwell
Creation Date:
2012
Format:
277
Language:
English
Identifier:
ISBN: 1444361538
ISBN: 9781444361537
EISBN: 9781118297292
EISBN: 1118297296
EISBN: 1118297288
EISBN: 9781118297285
DOI: 10.1002/9781118297261
OCLC: 784124233
Source:
Ebook Central - Academic Complete