Women, Welfare and Productivism in East Asia and Europe

by Ruby Chau, Sam Yu

Overview

Developing the new framework of ‘life-mix’, which considers the mixed patterns of caring and working in different periods of life, this book systematically explores the interplay of productivism, women, care and work in East Asia and Europe. The book ranges across four key aspects of welfare — childcare, parental leave, employment support and pensions — to illustrate how policies affect women in various periods of their lives. Policy case studies from France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, South Korea, Sweden and the UK, show how welfare could support people’s caring and working lives. This book forms a prescient examination of how productivist thinking underpins regimes and impacts women’s welfare, care and work in both the East and West.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447357735
Publisher:	Policy Press
Publication date:	07/29/2022
Series:	Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Ruby C. M. Chau is Associate Professor in Public and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham. She is interested in welfare mix, women and welfare, culturally sensitive health and social care. Sam W. K. Yu is an independent researcher. His research focuses on welfare models, comparative social policy and East Asian welfare regimes.

Table of Contents

Introduction;
The productivism framework;
Threats to women’s welfare;
Childcare: Outsourcing care to non-family sectors;
Parental leave: Entering, re-entering and exit from the work economy;
Labour activation: Exclusions in inclusive measures;
Pension for women: Choice and adequacy;
Productivism in East Asian and European welfare regimes;
Responses of individual women to productivist policy measures;
Inclusive welfare threats free society for women