Full Description
As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability.
International discussion about the reconciliation of work and care has previously focused mostly on childcare. Combining paid work and family care widens the debate, bringing into discussion the experiences of those providing support to their partners, older relatives and disabled or seriously ill children. The book analyses the situations of these working carers in Nordic, liberal and East Asian welfare systems. Highlighting what can be learned from individual experiences, the book analyses the changing welfare and labour market policies which shape the lives of working carers in Finland, Sweden, Australia, England, Japan and Taiwan.
Contents
Reconciling work and care: an international analysis ‾ Teppo Kröger and Sue Yeandle;
The emergence of policy supporting working carers: developments in six countries ‾ Sue Yeandle, Teppo Kröger et al;
Part One: Working carers of older people;
Family rediscovered? Working carers of older people in Finland and Sweden ‾ Outi Jolanki, Marta Szebehely and Kaisa Kauppinen;
Working carers of older people: steps toward securing adequate support in Australia and England? ‾ Sue Yeandle and Bettina Cass;
Struggling for recognition: working carers of older people in Japan and Taiwan ‾ Frank T.Y. Wang, Masaya Shimmei, Yoshiko Yamada and Machiko Osawa;
Part Two: Working parent-carers of disabled children;
Parent-carers of disabled children in Finland and Sweden: socially excluded by a labour of love ‾ Sonja Miettinen, Kristina Engwall and Antti Teittinen;
Reconciling work and care for parent-carers of disabled children in Australia and England: uncertain progress ‾ Sue Yeandle and kylie valentine;
Parent-carers in Taiwan and Japan: lifelong caring responsibilities within a familistic welfare system ‾ Yueh-Ching Chou, Toshiko Nakano, Heng-Hao Chang and Li-Fang Liang;
Part Three: Working partner-carers;
Reconciling partner-care and paid work in Finland and Sweden: challenges and coping strategies ‾ Anu Leinonen and Ann-Britt Sand;
'In sickness and in health' and beyond: reconciling work and care for a partner in Australia and England ‾ Gary Fry, Cathy Thomson and Trish Hill; Partner-care in the East Asian system: combining paid work and caring in Taiwan and Japan ‾ Mei-Chun Liu and Machiko Osawa;
Conclusions:
Reconciling work and care for older parents, disabled children and partners: convergent or separate paths in three welfare systems? ‾ Sue Yeandle and Teppo Kröger.
