A Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States? Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: A care crisis in the Nordic welfare states?
- 2 The ‘care crisis’: its scientific framing and silences
- 3 Fraser’s care crisis theory meets the Nordic welfare societies
- 4 Crisis of care: a problem of economisation, of technologisation or of politics of care?
- 5 Deteriorating working conditions in elder care: an invisible crisis of care?
- 6 Managerialism as a failing response to the care crisis
- 7 ‘We are here for you’: the care crisis and the (un)learning of good nursing
- 8 Professionalisation of social pedagogues under managerial control: caring for children in a time of care crisis
- 9 Raising quality in Norwegian early childhood centres: (re)producing the care crisis?
- 10 Conclusion: Less caring and less gender-equal Nordic states
- 11 Postscript: A care crisis in the time of COVID-19
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 May 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: A care crisis in the Nordic welfare states?
- 2 The ‘care crisis’: its scientific framing and silences
- 3 Fraser’s care crisis theory meets the Nordic welfare societies
- 4 Crisis of care: a problem of economisation, of technologisation or of politics of care?
- 5 Deteriorating working conditions in elder care: an invisible crisis of care?
- 6 Managerialism as a failing response to the care crisis
- 7 ‘We are here for you’: the care crisis and the (un)learning of good nursing
- 8 Professionalisation of social pedagogues under managerial control: caring for children in a time of care crisis
- 9 Raising quality in Norwegian early childhood centres: (re)producing the care crisis?
- 10 Conclusion: Less caring and less gender-equal Nordic states
- 11 Postscript: A care crisis in the time of COVID-19
- Index
Summary
This book is the outcome of three years of in-depth discussions in the interdisciplinary Nordic Care Crisis Network (NCCN). The interest in the care crisis arose from a concern about what was happening to the Nordic welfare states. A wide range of problems had surfaced in our individual research, and there was a need to bring our respective expertise together to gain in-depth knowledge about various problems, to discuss their possible connections and useful ways of theorising a care crisis in the context of the Nordic welfare regime. We thank the network participants for insightful and important discussions.
We would also like to give thanks to the Nordic Council of Ministers, which has funded the network with means from the Gender Equality Fund. We would like to thank the Center for Nordic Information on Gender (NIKK), which administered the funding with great flexibility. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to Professor Emerita Joan Tronto (University of Minnesota), who acted as a discussant to our work in progress papers and gave us valuable food for thought.
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- A Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States?Care Work, Gender Equality and Welfare State Sustainability, pp. ix - xPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2021