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

This article provides an analysis of the values associated with parenting and partnering, comparing those of New Labour with those of national voluntary organizations. It begins with an analysis of New Labour's policies around parenting and partnering, explaining the new salience that voluntary organizations have acquired under New Labour governance. It then draws on a qualitative study to provide an analysis of three main value discourses around welfare articulated by national voluntary organizations: welfare as care and well-being, welfare as social justice and equality, and welfare as social investment and then discusses the challenges these pose to New Labour.

Public Values of Parenting and Partnering: Voluntary Organizations and Welfare Politics in New Labour's Britain

November 2006 Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs) support children under 4 and their families by integrating early education, childcare, healthcare and family support services in disadvantaged areas. This study looked at the ways programmes helped parents move from feeling isolated, anxious or vulnerable to feeling that they had an increased sense of control over their lives. It looked, too, at the ways programmes encouraged parents to help and support one another.

Empowering parents in Sure Start Local Programmes

Gendering Citizenship in Western Europe.: New challenges for citizenship in a cross-national context

Care relations and public policy: social justice claims and social investment frames

This article reviews the development of critical thinking in social policy over four decades. First, it draws out the key insights of the early foundational critiques of the 1970s and 1980s especially around gender and race in their articulation with class. Second, it synthesizes two attempts in the 1990s to provide integrated critical analyses of the destabilization of the Keynesian welfare state and situates them in relation to the movement of mainstream theory at that time. Third, it looks at critical analyses that emerged in the first decade of this century in the wake of global neo-liberalism and post-structuralism. These are summarized as four ‘turns’: the agentic turn; the ethical turn; the global turn; and the (re)turn of intersectionality. The context of the decade since 2008 of financial and humanitarian crises and austerity provides the backcloth to argue, in conclusion, for a more integrated and multi-dimensional critical approach which encompasses different spaces, claims and social relations in which alternatives can be articulated.

Fiona Williams

Papers

Public Values of Parenting and Partnering: Voluntary Organizations and Welfare Politics in New Labour's Britain

Empowering parents in Sure Start Local Programmes

Gendering Citizenship in Western Europe.: New challenges for citizenship in a cross-national context

Care relations and public policy: social justice claims and social investment frames

Critical Thinking in Social Policy: The Challenges of Past, Present and Future