- Title Pages
- List of figures and tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
-
One Introduction -
Two Care and gender: have the arguments for recognising care work now been won?1 -
Three Research on care: what impact on policy and planning? -
Four ‘Pseudo-democracy and spurious precision’: knowledge dilemmas in the new welfare state -
Five The costs of caring for a disabled child -
Six Disability, poverty and living standards: reviewing Australian evidence and policies1 -
Seven Consumers without money: consumption patterns and citizenship among low-income families in Scandinavian welfare societies -
Eight Affordable credit for low-income households -
Nine Carers and employment in a work-focused welfare state -
Ten Paying family caregivers: evaluating different models -
Eleven Developments in Austrian care arrangements: women between free choice and informal care -
Twelve When informal care becomes a paid job: the case of Personal Assistance Budgets in Flanders -
Thirteen Better off in work? Work, security and welfare for lone mothers -
Fourteen Reciprocity, lone parents and state subsidy for informal childcare -
Fifteen Helping out at home: children's contributions to sustaining work and care in lone-mother families -
Sixteen Making connections: supporting new forms of engagement by marginalised groups -
Seventeen Independent living: the role of the disability movement in the development of government policy -
Eighteen Securing the dignity and quality of life of older citizens -
Nineteen Conclusions - References
- Index
Carers and employment in a work-focused welfare state
Carers and employment in a work-focused welfare state
- Chapter:
- (p.111) Nine Carers and employment in a work-focused welfare state
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- Cash and care
- Author(s):
Hilary Arksey
Peter A. Kemp
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This chapter explores the interaction between paid employment and informal caregiving in Britain. The first section examines the risk of informal caring in Britain today, its implications for participation in paid employment, and its consequences for earnings and incomes more generally. The second section looks at what help is potentially available to carers, both in terms of cash and practical support. The third section draws on an empirical study of carers' aspirations and decisions about work, in order to compare policy with practice. The final section presents conclusions about carers and employment within the welfare state in Britain today.
Keywords: paid employment, informal caregiving, carers, welfare state
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- Title Pages
- List of figures and tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
-
One Introduction -
Two Care and gender: have the arguments for recognising care work now been won?1 -
Three Research on care: what impact on policy and planning? -
Four ‘Pseudo-democracy and spurious precision’: knowledge dilemmas in the new welfare state -
Five The costs of caring for a disabled child -
Six Disability, poverty and living standards: reviewing Australian evidence and policies1 -
Seven Consumers without money: consumption patterns and citizenship among low-income families in Scandinavian welfare societies -
Eight Affordable credit for low-income households -
Nine Carers and employment in a work-focused welfare state -
Ten Paying family caregivers: evaluating different models -
Eleven Developments in Austrian care arrangements: women between free choice and informal care -
Twelve When informal care becomes a paid job: the case of Personal Assistance Budgets in Flanders -
Thirteen Better off in work? Work, security and welfare for lone mothers -
Fourteen Reciprocity, lone parents and state subsidy for informal childcare -
Fifteen Helping out at home: children's contributions to sustaining work and care in lone-mother families -
Sixteen Making connections: supporting new forms of engagement by marginalised groups -
Seventeen Independent living: the role of the disability movement in the development of government policy -
Eighteen Securing the dignity and quality of life of older citizens -
Nineteen Conclusions - References
- Index
