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Lone Mothers in European Welfare Regimes: Shifting Policy Logic

  • ISBN-13: 9781853024610
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • Edited by Jane Lewis
  • Price: AUD $62.99
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  • Local release date: 14/10/1997
  • Format: Paperback (232.00mm X 160.00mm) 216 pages Weight: 364g
  • Categories: Educational equipment & technology,CAL [JNV]
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Jane Lewis is Director of Research in Practice. After an early career in law, including private and public family law, she moved into social policy research. She was Director of the Qualitative Research Unit at NatCen, carrying out research and evaluation largely for central government across the social policy agenda. At NCB (the National Children's Bureau) she was Director of Research, Evidence and Evaluation.
Lone mothers in Germany before and after unification; lone mothers - the British case; lone mothers - the case of Ireland; lone mothers in the Netherlands; the parent worker model - lone mothers in Sweden; dilemmas of citizenship in Denmark - lone mothers between work and care; lone mothers in Italy - a hidden and embarrassing issue in a familist welfare regime.
Comparative studies like this widen the horizon and enable the reader to view their own country in a new perspective - In the chapter about Britain, the editor Jane Lewis offers a first rate account about the historical development of social policies in Britain.
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