Lone Mothers Between Paid Work and Care : The Policy Regime in Twenty Countries (Hardcover)

List of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. Mainstream Comparative Welfare State Research: A Review, 3. Feminist Perspectives on Comparative Welfare State Research, 4. Lone Mothers as an Analytical Category in an Examination of How Welfare States Structure Women's Relationship to Paid Work and Care: Rationale and Methods, 5. Poor Mothers: Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, 6. Non-Poor Mothers: The Netherlands, 7. Poor Workers: Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and the United States, 8. Non-Poor Workers: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway and Sweden, 9. Patterns of Convergence and Divergence in the Configuration of Social Rights Attached to Paid Work, Care and Transitions Across Twenty Countries, 10. Conclusions, Appendices, Bibliography