A Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States?

Care Work, Gender Equality and Welfare State Sustainability

Lise Lotte Hansen, Hanne Marlene Dahl, Laura Horn, Hansen, Lise Lotte, Dahl, Hanne Marlene, Lise Lotte Hansen, Hanne Marlene Dahl, Laura Horn

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781447361367
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In this insightful collection, academic experts consider the impact of neoliberal policies and ideology on the status of care work in Nordic countries. With new research perspectives and empirical analyses, it assesses challenges for care work including technologies, management and policy-making.

Arguing that there is a care crisis even in the supposedly feminist Nordic 'nirvana', this book explores understandings of the care crisis, the serious consequences for gender equality and the hitherto neglected effects on the long-term sustainability of the Nordic welfare states.

This astute take on the Nordic welfare model provides insights into what the Nordic experience can tell us about wider international issues in care.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of 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