A Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States?: Care Work, Gender Equality and Welfare State Sustainability
Lise Lotte Hansen, Hanne Marlene Dahl, and Laura Horn
Abstract
This book considers the impact of neoliberal policies and ideology on the status of care work in Nordic countries. With new research perspectives and empirical analyses, the book assesses challenges for care work including technologies, management and policy-making. Arguing that there is a care crisis even in the supposedly feminist Nordic ‘nirvana’, the book explores understandings of the care crisis, the serious consequences for gender equality and the hitherto neglected effects on the long-term sustainability of the Nordic welfare states. This astute take on the Nordic welfare model provide ... More
This book considers the impact of neoliberal policies and ideology on the status of care work in Nordic countries. With new research perspectives and empirical analyses, the book assesses challenges for care work including technologies, management and policy-making. Arguing that there is a care crisis even in the supposedly feminist Nordic ‘nirvana’, the book explores understandings of the care crisis, the serious consequences for gender equality and the hitherto neglected effects on the long-term sustainability of the Nordic welfare states. This astute take on the Nordic welfare model provides insights into what the Nordic experience can tell us about wider international issues in care.
Keywords:
Nordic countries,
care work,
care crisis,
gender equality,
sustainability,
Nordic welfare states
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447361343 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2022 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447361343.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Lise Lotte Hansen, editor
Roskilde University
Hanne Marlene Dahl, editor
Roskilde University
Laura Horn, editor
Roskilde University
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