Symposium Review: 25th Anniversary of Moral Boundaries by Joan Tronto

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Trust and the development of health care as a social institution

Research on welfare states and inequality has tended to be bifurcated, focusing either on class or on gender This paper combines gender and class in an analysis of patterns of inequalities in different types of welfare states in 18 countries Whereas a major dimension of class inequality can be described in terms of material standards of living, in the advanced Western countries it is fruitful to conceptualize gender inequality in terms of agency In analyses of gender as well as of class inequalities, welfare states have been seen as significant intervening variables However, major problems have emerged in attempts to devise typologies of welfare states that are of heuristic value in analyses of gender inequality as well as of class inequality This paper describes the development of gendered agency inequality during the period after the Second World War in 18 OECD countries in the arenas of democratic politics, tertiary education, and labor force participation Class inequality is measured in terms of disposable house income based on LIS data The paper develops a new typology of welfare states based on institutional structures of relevance for gender inequality as well as class inequality The combination of gender and class throws new light on the driving forces behind inequalities and on the role of welfare states in this context Gender inequality is conceptualized in terms of agency The paper presents a new typology of welfare states based on institutional structures of relevance for gender inequality as well as class inequality The combination of gender and class throws new light on the driving forces behind inequalities and on the role of welfare states in this context

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Faces of Inequality: Gender, Class, and Patterns of Inequalities in Different Types of Welfare States

Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care

Gender relations—embodied in the sexual division of labor, compulsory heterosexuality, gendered forms of citizenship and political participation, ideologies of masculinity and femininity, and the like—profoundly shape the character of welfare states. Likewise, the institutions of social provision—the set of social assistance and social insurance programs and universal citizenship entitlements to which we refer as “the welfare state” —affect gender relations. Until recently, two broad approaches to gender relations and welfare states predominated: one which saw states contributing to the social reproduction of gender hierarchies, and a second which saw states having an ameliorative impact on gender inequality. More recently, two new strands of research have emerged emphasizing the variation in the effects of social policies on gender.

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Gender in the Welfare State

Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in Welfare States: A Framework for Comparative Analysis

The aim of this article is to widen the grounds of the debate on the relationship between values, social change and welfare reform. In the public debate on welfare reform and the Third Way the significance of the welfare politics and campaigns of civil society in challenging the old welfare order has received little acknowledgement. The article argues that these politics and campaigns have, along with both the New Right and New Labour, attempted to construct a new vision of an ‘active welfare subject’. In the process they have also expanded the moral repertoire for understanding people's engagement with welfare beyond the self-interest/altruism dichotomy. The article uses this new repertoire to propose seven key principles for a reordering of the social relations of welfare.

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Good-enough Principles for Welfare

asp?DocID=2391&v1ID=&RevID=&namePage=&pageParent=&DocID sousmenu=&parentCat=534#2006 accessed on 4/3/2008. Fawcett, Barbara, Brid, Featherstone and Jim Goddard. 2003. From the Womb to the Workplace: Child Welfare under New Labour. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Social Policy Association, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK, 15 July.

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Claiming and Framing in the Making of Care Policies: The recognition and redistribution of care

The article argues that, while the Green Paper opens up new possibilities for the way society can transform the lives of children and their parents, it also, at the same time, closes these off. One reason for this is its failure to be explicit about its vision and its values. The article summarizes the main proposals in the Green Paper, and then focuses on three issues: the meaning of respect for children and childhood; whether children are seen as citizens of the present as well as the future; and the place of trust in the idea of the parent-state partnership. The discussion highlights particular tensions between entitlement and responsibility, protection and punishment, and in the scope of education.

Fiona Williams

Papers

Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in Welfare States: A Framework for Comparative Analysis

Good-enough Principles for Welfare

Claiming and Framing in the Making of Care Policies: The recognition and redistribution of care

What Matters is who Works: Why Every Child Matters to New Labour. Commentary on the DfES Green Paper Every Child Matters

Gendering Citizenship in Western Europe.