The Invisible Welfare State: Women's Work at Home

1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 193-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kari Wærness
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Unpaid Work ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Women's Equality ◽  
Work At Home ◽  
Women's Welfare ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
The Invisible ◽  
At Home

Analysing welfare in terms of Allardt's three dimensions – Having, Loving, and Being – women's unpaid work at home seems particularly important for securing the welfare of the children, the sick, and the old on the Loving dimension. Increasing employment outside the home is necessary for increasing women's welfare on the Being dimension and their independence on the Having dimension. This cannot be realized without reducing the amount of women's unpaid work in the home. A dilemma of the welfare state is how women's equality on the Having and Being dimensions can be realized without the dependent population becoming worse off on the Loving dimension.

Unpaid Work at Home

2009 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 578-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
YOUNGHWAN SONG
Keyword(s):  
Unpaid Work ◽  
Work At Home ◽  
At Home

scholarly journals ‘I volunteer at home too!’ Gendering affective citizenship

2021 ◽  
pp. 0308275X2097409
Author(s):  
Milena Marchesi
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Male Breadwinner ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Women Volunteers ◽  
Italian Origin ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
At Home

This article argues for gendering affective citizenship and humanitarianism. Both of these ‘regimes of care’ are understood to work through benevolent affect, to mobilize citizens in the wake of the retrenchment of the welfare state. Ethnography with Italian-origin women volunteers at a Milanese association shows that the affect and motivations of affective citizens can starkly deviate from benevolence and ‘do-gooderism’. Analyses of post-Fordist affective citizenship focus on the shift from waged labour and state-mediated forms of social security to precarious labour and privatized responsibilities for welfare, implicitly centring the (male) breadwinner as the subject of these transformations. By contrast, this article seeks to call attention to the continuities in unwaged care. In so doing, it shows how the Fordist legacy of gendered citizenship ‘haunts’ its post-Fordist affective and humanitarian reconfigurations and highlights the contradictions and contestations that mark ongoing transformations of social citizenship in Europe.

Pandémie, défis et acquis

2021 ◽  
pp. 151-158
Author(s):  
Katharina VAJTA
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
The Government ◽  
Large Groups ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
At Home

In Sweden, as elsewhere, Covid-19 has profoundly changed daily life, almost overnight, at all levels of society. But unlike most other countries, the strategy adopted by the government and the Folkhälsomyndigheten did not consider total containment as a realistic way forward. Instead, the recommendations given to avoid the spread of the virus were clear and, if not mandatory, formal and resolute. With a strong tradition of civic obedience and trust in the welfare state, the result was that Swedes mostly stayed at home, worked remotely when possible, and were not able to go to the theatre or the cinema, let alone travel or meet in large groups. In education, although schools remained open, colleges and universities were forced to move all their activities online, usually to Zoom.

scholarly journals Measuring and Comparing the Regulatory Welfare State: Social Objectives in Public Procurement

2020 ◽  
Vol 691 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-83
Author(s):  
Miriam Hartlapp
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Social Regulation ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Economic Regulation ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
The Welfare State

This article constructs an index that translates the substance of policy documents into numeric values across three dimensions of regulation—a qualitative assessment of policy substance, its potential impact, and enforcement of regulation—which aims to capture the strength of social objectives in the economy. It draws on theories of economic regulation and literature on the welfare state to develop a general understanding of social objectives. The use of the index is illustrated through public procurement regulation in two European countries (France and Germany) and shows an overall increase in the strength of social objectives. It also highlights systematic differences in country priorities in the regulation of their economy. The index demonstrates that social regulation can be measured and compared in a meaningful way within and across countries.

scholarly journals Researching Gender Professions: Nurses as Professionals

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Benjamin Zufiaurre ◽  
Maider Pérez de Villarreal
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Funded Research ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Neoliberal Policies ◽  
Work At Home ◽  
The Way ◽  
At Home

Nurses as professionals of health, childhood education teachers, social workers and caregivers, join a group of“feminine professions” which grew through policies of a welfare state in postwar constructive period, or in times ofpostwar accords (Jones, 1983). These professions are under challenge because of neoliberal policies and practices inthe 21st century. In the paper, we want to give lights to the contradictory situations nurses face, as workers and ascare keepers. Nurses, suffer of a combination of public and private functions, at work, at home, and when caringfamily relatives. The way women feel about their role as professionals, and as women and workers, is illuminative,as we enquired in a funded research developed with nurses in the community of Navarra, Spain, first from 1993 to1996, and next, checking a continuity each ten years, 2006 and next 2016.

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