Sheila B. Kamerman, Alfred J. Kahn (eds.)  
  Family Change and Family Policies in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States    
  Family Change and Family Policies in the West   vergrößerte Ansicht in neuem Fenster  
  [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]  
  463 S., Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997  
  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.

Table of Contents

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

List of Contributors

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 Children’s 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.