A Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States?: Care Work, Gender Equality and Welfare State Sustainability

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- A Care Crisis In The Nordic Welfare States?: Care Work, Gender Equality And Welfare State Sustainability -- Copyright Information -- Table Of Contents -- List Of Tables -- Notes On Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: A Care Crisis In The Nordic Welfare States? -- Key Concepts And Rethinking The Notion Of A Care Crisis -- Focus And Limits Of This Book -- Contributions To The Field -- Notes -- References -- 2 The 'care Crisis': Its Scientific Framing And Silences -- Introduction -- Methodology And My Position -- Representations Of The Care Crisis Silence And Silencing -- The Effects Of The Prevalent Care Crisis Representation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Fraser's Care Crisis Theory Meets The Nordic Welfare Societies -- Introduction -- Engaging With Fraser's Concepts Of Care Crisis And Social Justice -- Care And Social Reproduction In The 'women-friendly' Nordic Welfare Societies -- Care Crisis Tendencies And Resistance In The Nordic Welfare Societies -- Financialisation Of Care Work In The Nordic Welfare State Context -- Devaluation Of Care Work In Families And The Misrecognition Of Mothering Dynamics Of Resistance And Change In The Danish Labour Market And Beyond -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 4 Crisis Of Care: A Problem Of Economisation, Of Technologisation Or Of Politics Of Care? -- Introduction -- Modes Of Care Crisis Present In Research -- Care Crisis As An Articulated Moral Question -- Care Crisis As An Articulated Economic Question -- Care Crisis As An Articulated Techno-political Question -- Technology As A Remedy? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 Deteriorating Working Conditions In Elder Care: An Invisible Crisis Of Care? -- Introduction Theoretical Approach -- Trends In Swedish Elder Care: Ageing-in-place, Deinstitutionalisation And Decreased Service Coverage -- Working Conditions In Elder Care: A Nordic Outlook -- Data And Analysis -- Results -- Unsatisfying Employment Conditions -- Work-life Imbalance -- Lack Of Resources -- Physically And Mentally Demanding -- Relational Poverty -- Endangered Well-being -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Managerialism As A Failing Response To The Care Crisis -- Introduction -- Quality And Efficiency Through Management? -- The Diversifying Toolbox For Managing Care Work The Logic Of Care And The Limits Of Detailed Control -- The Logic Of Care And The Limits Of Self-governance -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 'we Are Here For You': The Care Crisis And The (un)learning Of Good Nursing -- Introduction -- Conceptualising A Crisis Of Care And Its Drain On Human Capacity And Qualifications -- 'modernisation' Of Nordic Public Services: 'value For Money' -- 'modernisation' Discourses Undermine Nurses' Educational Competence -- Method And Design -- Tracing Nurses' Experiences Of Health System Discourses And Economic Rationalisation -- Emilie: Care Under Pressure Edited By Lise Lotte Hansen, Hanne Marlene Dahl And Laura Horn. Rebecca: Dismantling The Basic Rationales Of Nursing. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.