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| Work and care | | Author(s) | Jane Lewis |
| Corporate Author | Social Policy Association |
| Journal title | IN: Social policy review 12, chapter 3, 2000 |
| Publisher | Social Policy Association, Sudbury, Suffolk, 2000 |
| Pages | pp 48-67 |
| Source | Social Policy Association, Lavenham Group, Arbons House, Lavenham, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 9RN. |
| Keywords | Employment ; Family care ; Women as carers ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | Documents setting out the Labour government's employment policy imply that everyone who can is going to be in the labour market. How care work is to be carried out by those who need to is not dealt with explicitly. There is no coherent policy on care of dependents to match the policy on paid work, even though carers have to find time and ways in which to deal with their family care obligations. Given that a majority of paid and unpaid carers are women, and that a majority of older people receiving care are also female, care continues to be a gendered issue. This paper sets out the post-war welfare state model; and considers work and care obligations, and care ethics and policies. For a government that is concerned about the family, parenting and work, its apparent lack of preoccupation with care issues seems strange. Consideration should be given to more radical policies that will encourage more equal sharing of both paid and unpaid work. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010129203 B |
| Classmark | WJ: P6:SJ: P6:SH: TM2 |
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