Restructuring Caring Labour: Discourse, State Practice, and Everyday Life

Neysmith, Sheila M. [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0195414802 / ISBN 13: 9780195414806

Published by Oxford University Press, 2000

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In nearly new condition: firm and square with strong joints. Retracted from the publisher?s library, and so just showing a small cancel stamp at the endpaper. Looks and feels unread. Thus the contents are crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks. Thus a very nice copy now offered for sale at a very reasonable price.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Restructuring Caring Labour: Discourse, State Practice, and Everyday Life
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195414802
• ISBN 13: 9780195414806
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 13 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Politics, Economics & Government

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Synopsis

This collection of essays examines how economic restructuring and changing social conditions are reshaping both the paid and unpaid work that women do. It provides an analytic framework to document in particular current trends in the responsibilities that women have in caring for others, including children, spouses, parents, and extended families. Containing original arguments and new research, the book emphasizes a feminist perspective and investigates race and class as well as gender.

About the Author

Sheila Neysmith is a professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto. She is the author of numerous works on women and labour, most recently co-editiong the second edition of Women's Caring: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare (OUP Canada, 1998). She is also the current policy and practice editor of the Canadian Journal of Aging/La Revue canadienne du viellisement.