Working carers : international perspectives on working and caring for older people
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Working carers : international perspectives on working and caring for older people
(Avebury studies of care in the community)
Avebury, c1995
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text sets out to present the research findings on working caregivers who are providing care for older people. It attempts to present a methodological framework adopting a feminist perspective in which such research can be conducted.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Issues from Britain: perspectives on caring
- employment and care, paid and unpaid work - the socio-economic position of informal carers in Britain
- balancing work and care in Britain. Part 2 European perspectives: female carers for elderly people - implications for women's labour market participation in Ireland
- eldercare and the workplace - a new challenge for all social partners in Germany. Part 3 Transatlantic experience: eldercare and work research in the United States
- work and care of elderly people - a Canadian perspective
- conclusion - rethinking perspectives.
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