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What Adult Worker Model?: A Critical Look at Recent Social Policy Reform in Europe from a Gender and Family Perspective

Daly, Mary

Social politics, 2011-04, Vol.18 (1), p.1-23 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: Oxford University Press

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What Adult Worker Model?: A Critical Look at Recent Social Policy Reform in Europe from a Gender and Family Perspective
Autor: Daly, Mary
Assuntos: Adults ; Delivery of Health Care - economics ; Delivery of Health Care - ethnology ; Delivery of Health Care - history ; Delivery of Health Care - legislation & jurisprudence ; Employment ; Employment - economics ; Employment - history ; Employment - legislation & jurisprudence ; Employment - psychology ; Equality ; Europe ; Europe - ethnology ; Families & family life ; Familism ; Family ; Family - ethnology ; Family - history ; Family - psychology ; Family Health - ethnology ; Family Roles ; Family Therapy ; Gender ; Gender Identity ; Gender studies ; Government - history ; Government policy ; Government Programs - economics ; Government Programs - education ; Government Programs - history ; Government Programs - legislation & jurisprudence ; History of medicine ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Independence ; Manpower policy ; National Health Programs - economics ; National Health Programs - history ; National Health Programs - legislation & jurisprudence ; Policy Reform ; Reform ; Sex ; Sex role ; Social Class - history ; Social Institutions ; Social Policy ; Social Welfare - economics ; Social Welfare - ethnology ; Social Welfare - history ; Social Welfare - legislation & jurisprudence ; Social Welfare - psychology ; Welfare economics ; Welfare reform ; Welfare State ; Western Europe ; Women ; Workers
É parte de: Social politics, 2011-04, Vol.18 (1), p.1-23
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Descrição: Analyses regularly feature claims that European welfare states are in the process of creating an adult worker model. The theoretical and empirical basis of this argument is examined here by looking first at the conceptual foundations of the adult worker model formulation and then at the extent to which social policy reform in western Europe fits with the argument. It is suggested that the adult worker formulation is under-specified. A framework incorporating four dimensions—the treatment of individuals vis-à-vis their family role and status for the purposes of social rights, the treatment of care, the treatment of the family as a social institution, and the extent to which gender inequality is problematized—is developed and then applied. The empirical analysis reveals a strong move towards individualization as social policy promotes and valorizes individual agency and self-sufficiency and shifts some childcare from the family. Yet evidence is also found of continued (albeit changed) familism. Rather than an unequivocal move to an individualized worker model then, a dual earner, gender-specialized, family arrangement is being promoted. The latter is the middle way between the old dependencies and the new “independence.” This makes for complexity and even ambiguity in policy, a manifestation of which is that reform within countries involves concurrent moves in several directions.
Editor: United States: Oxford University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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What Adult Worker Model?: A Critical Look at Recent Social Policy Reform in Europe from a Gender and Family Perspective

Daly, Mary

United States: Oxford University Press

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