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Sheila B. Kamerman, Alfred
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Family Change and Family
Policies in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States
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Family Change and Family Policies in
the West |
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[A series of country studies and comparative analyses
examining major changes in the family and the broad spectrum of family policies
in Western industrial society in the second half of the twentieth century. A
series of publications by the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research.
VOL. 1] |
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463 S., Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997 |
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ISBN 0-19-829025-X |
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Abstract:
This is the first volume in a series reporting on the evolution of
family policies in western welfare states and comparing current provisions.
Developments are presented in the form of an analytical narrative on family
change for each of the countries, and sytematic themes are followed throughout
the volumes, including the economic, political, and institutional contexts in
which the changes have occurred. Each of the country reports has been prepared
as a team collaboration by internationally-recognized experts. The co-editors
have prepared an analytical introduction which discusses the methodology for
the series as well as the hypotheses which emerge from the first cases. The
topics include family formation and current structural patterns, families and
the division of labour, the income of families (earnings, taxation, transfer
programmes), and families and services (especially child care, health, and
personal social services), as well as the political and institutional context
for family policy. Further volumes will cover the consociational
democracies (Belgium, Switzerland, and The Netherlands); France and Southern
Europe (Austria, the Germanies, Hungary, and Poland); Scandinavia. The
concluding two volumes will synthesize the findings of the studies, and develop
the hypotheses which have been put forward.
Introduction (Sheila B. Kamerman, Alfred J. Kahn)
Great Britain (Stein Ringen, editor)
Introduction: Historical Roots of Family Policy 1 The Formation of
Families 2 Families and the Division of Labour: Employment and Family
Work 3 The Income of Families: Earnings and Transfers 4 Families and
Social Services 5 The Politics and Institutionalization of Family
Policy Conclusion: The Profile of Family Policy
Canada (Maureen Baker, Shelley Phipps)
Introduction: Historical Roots of Family Policy 1 The Formation of
Families 2 Families and the Division of Labour: Employment and Family
Work 3 The Income of Families: Earnings and Transfers 4 Families,
Health Care, and Social Services 5 The Politics and Institutionalization of
Family Policies Conclusion
New Zealand (Ian Shirley, Peggy Koopman-Boyden, Ian Pool,
Susan St. John) Introduction: An Historical Review 1 The Formation
of Families 2 The Family and the Labour Market 3 Financial Assistance
to Families 4 Families and Social Services 5 Family Policy and
Political Economy Conclusion
United States (Sheila B. Kamerman, Alfred J. Kahn)
Introduction: Themes in the American Tradition 1 The Formation of
Families 2 Families and the Division of Labour: Employment and Family
Work 3 The Income of Families: Earnings and Transfers 4 Families and
Social Services 5 The Politics and Institutionalization of Family
Policy Conclusion
Maureen Baker is Professor at the McGill University School of
Social Work in Montreal, Quebec.
Alfred J. Kahn is Professor Emeritus and Special Lecturer at the
Columbia University School of Social Work and Co-Director of the Cross-National
Studies Research Program.
Sheila B. Kamerman is Compton Foundation Centennial Professor for
the Prevention of Childrens and Youth Problems at the Columbia University
School of Social Work and Co-Director of the Cross-National Studies Research
Program.
Peggy Koopman-Boyden is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the
School of Social Sciences at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Shelley Phipps is Associate Professor of Economics at Dalhousie
University in Halifax, Novia Scotia.
Ian Pool is Professor of Demography at the University of Waikato,
New Zealand, and Director of the Population Studies Centre.
Stein Ringen is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at
Oxford University. His most recent book is Families, Citizens, and
Reform (Oxford University Press, 1996).
Ian Shirley is Professor of Social Policy at Massey University,
New Zealand, and Director of the Social Policy Research Centre.
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