Clare Ungerson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 123846 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Clare Ungerson |
| PRENOMES | Clare |
| SOBRENOME | Ungerson |
| ASSINATURA | UNGERSON C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Southampton |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 224 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1968 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Why do women care? 1
Commentators on women as paid workers and women as housewives have been saying for a very long time that women have ‘two roles’. Women in Britain have apparently worked their way through the minefield of ‘opportunity costs’ by taking on part-time work in unusually large numbers—compared to the rest of the developed capitalist world. Between 1961 and 1978, the number of women working rose from 7.5 million to 9.5 million, and almost all this increa…
Gender, Care, and the Welfare State
Gender, labour markets and care work in five European funding regimes1
Care, Work and Feeling
Whose empowerment and independence? A cross-national perspective on ‘cash for care’ schemes
This paper uses qualitative data from a cross-national study of ‘cash for care’ schemes in five European countries (Austria, France, Italy, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom) to consider the concepts of empowerment and independence in relation to both care-users and care-givers. The paper locates the schemes along two axes, one of regulation/non-regulation, the other whether relatives can be paid or not. Each of the schemes has a different i…
Commodified care work in European Labour Markets
This paper considers the reasons why a form of commodified care work identified as ‘routed wages’ has developed in many European countries over the past decade. These systems, which are often argued for within an empowerment discourse for the care users, are not often considered in terms of their labour market impact. The paper uses empirical data generated in a cross-national qualitative study of care users and their care givers in five European…
Thinking about the Production and Consumption of Long-term Care in Britain
This article suggests that the literature on care, which originally was heavily influenced by a gendered perspective, has now taken on other important variables. However, it is argued that if we look at the particular impact of the marketisation and privatisation of long-term care, we can see that gender is still a useful perspective on the production of care, especially paid care. The reordering of the delivery of domiciliary care within the 'mi…
Personal Assistants and Disabled People
Welfare states are developing forms of payment for care such that the boundary between ‘work’ and ‘care’ is breaking down. Various types of payment are being introduced, but one of the most interesting is the widespread development of direct payment schemes whereby disabled people are given cash instead of services, and expected to use these monies to purchase directly the services of personal assistants. This paper uses the evidence of a small q…
Women and Social Policy
It is ten years since the first edition of this well-established text was published. The second edition contains an almost entirely new selection of readings, to bring the publication up-to-date, and
Social Politics and the Commodification of Care
The capturing of "unpaid work" as a concept has probably been one of the major successes of second-wave feminism. The impact of that idea has been profound, both in analytical and in policy terms. Within policy, the struggle to name and quantify such work has been worldwide, and the campaign to include domestic labor within public accounting has recently become an important issue both in the United States and in the United Nations (Himmelweit, 19…
Give Them the Money
This article suggests it is important to unpack the notion of “empowerment” in community care so that the position of those who provide “hands‐on” care is scrutinised alongside the empowerment of “users” of care. The particular case of the forthcoming Direct Payments legislation, whereby disabled people will be able to opt for cash rather than services and become employers of personal assistants, is considered. It is argued that both employers an…
Becoming a Consumer of Care
The chapter evaluates the reformed arrangements for the management and delivery of social care following the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 using a framework drawn from economic sociology. Research findings describing how a group of newly disabled older people fared as consumers of the services are summarized. An explanatory account is given drawing upon concepts and theory to be found in the growing literature on the sociology of economic life,…
Gender, Cash and Informal Care
Recent feminist literature on care has suggested that, conceptually, it is better to dissolve the boundaries between ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ care when analysing care. This article suggests that there are policy developments taking place, both in Britain and in some of the countries of Europe, which are dissolving the boundaries between formal and informal care, particularly as far as payment for care is concerned. It is argued that, in this case,…
Measuring the impact of informal caring’ by S. Orbell
Reply to Orbell and Hopkins' response
Policy Is Personal
The last ten years have seen an enormous upsurge in interest in policies for community care in all countries of the developed world. They all have ageing populations and most have governments committed to tight control of welfare expenditure. A major consequence has been the growing attention paid to the position of 'carers' - those who find themselves caring for their relatives in their own homes and for no pay. A considerable academic literatur…
Caring
Sexual Divisions
Housing Policy
Leaving London
Trends in Residential Care, 1911–1961
Cash for care in developed welfare states
Social Politics and the Commodification of Care
The capturing of "unpaid work" as a concept has probably been one of the major successes of second-wave feminism. The impact of that idea has been profound, both in analytical and in policy terms. Within policy, the struggle to name and quantify such work has been worldwide, and the campaign to include domestic labor within public accounting has recently become an important issue both in the United States and in the United Nations (Himmelweit, 19…
Personal Assistants and Disabled People
Welfare states are developing forms of payment for care such that the boundary between ‘work’ and ‘care’ is breaking down. Various types of payment are being introduced, but one of the most interesting is the widespread development of direct payment schemes whereby disabled people are given cash instead of services, and expected to use these monies to purchase directly the services of personal assistants. This paper uses the evidence of a small q…
Whose empowerment and independence? A cross-national perspective on ‘cash for care’ schemes
This paper uses qualitative data from a cross-national study of ‘cash for care’ schemes in five European countries (Austria, France, Italy, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom) to consider the concepts of empowerment and independence in relation to both care-users and care-givers. The paper locates the schemes along two axes, one of regulation/non-regulation, the other whether relatives can be paid or not. Each of the schemes has a different i…
Commodified care work in European Labour Markets
This paper considers the reasons why a form of commodified care work identified as ‘routed wages’ has developed in many European countries over the past decade. These systems, which are often argued for within an empowerment discourse for the care users, are not often considered in terms of their labour market impact. The paper uses empirical data generated in a cross-national qualitative study of care users and their care givers in five European…
Care, Work and Feeling
Thinking about the Production and Consumption of Long-term Care in Britain
This article suggests that the literature on care, which originally was heavily influenced by a gendered perspective, has now taken on other important variables. However, it is argued that if we look at the particular impact of the marketisation and privatisation of long-term care, we can see that gender is still a useful perspective on the production of care, especially paid care. The reordering of the delivery of domiciliary care within the 'mi…
Gender, Cash and Informal Care
Recent feminist literature on care has suggested that, conceptually, it is better to dissolve the boundaries between ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ care when analysing care. This article suggests that there are policy developments taking place, both in Britain and in some of the countries of Europe, which are dissolving the boundaries between formal and informal care, particularly as far as payment for care is concerned. It is argued that, in this case,…
Give Them the Money
This article suggests it is important to unpack the notion of “empowerment” in community care so that the position of those who provide “hands‐on” care is scrutinised alongside the empowerment of “users” of care. The particular case of the forthcoming Direct Payments legislation, whereby disabled people will be able to opt for cash rather than services and become employers of personal assistants, is considered. It is argued that both employers an…
Leaving London
Becoming a Consumer of Care
The chapter evaluates the reformed arrangements for the management and delivery of social care following the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 using a framework drawn from economic sociology. Research findings describing how a group of newly disabled older people fared as consumers of the services are summarized. An explanatory account is given drawing upon concepts and theory to be found in the growing literature on the sociology of economic life,…
Trends in Residential Care, 1911–1961
Leaving London
Housing Policy
Sexual Divisions
Caring
Policy Is Personal
The last ten years have seen an enormous upsurge in interest in policies for community care in all countries of the developed world. They all have ageing populations and most have governments committed to tight control of welfare expenditure. A major consequence has been the growing attention paid to the position of 'carers' - those who find themselves caring for their relatives in their own homes and for no pay. A considerable academic literatur…
Measuring the impact of informal caring’ by S. Orbell
Reply to Orbell and Hopkins' response
Gender, Cash and Informal Care
Recent feminist literature on care has suggested that, conceptually, it is better to dissolve the boundaries between ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ care when analysing care. This article suggests that there are policy developments taking place, both in Britain and in some of the countries of Europe, which are dissolving the boundaries between formal and informal care, particularly as far as payment for care is concerned. It is argued that, in this case,…
Women and Social Policy
It is ten years since the first edition of this well-established text was published. The second edition contains an almost entirely new selection of readings, to bring the publication up-to-date, and
Social Politics and the Commodification of Care
The capturing of "unpaid work" as a concept has probably been one of the major successes of second-wave feminism. The impact of that idea has been profound, both in analytical and in policy terms. Within policy, the struggle to name and quantify such work has been worldwide, and the campaign to include domestic labor within public accounting has recently become an important issue both in the United States and in the United Nations (Himmelweit, 19…
Give Them the Money
This article suggests it is important to unpack the notion of “empowerment” in community care so that the position of those who provide “hands‐on” care is scrutinised alongside the empowerment of “users” of care. The particular case of the forthcoming Direct Payments legislation, whereby disabled people will be able to opt for cash rather than services and become employers of personal assistants, is considered. It is argued that both employers an…
Becoming a Consumer of Care
The chapter evaluates the reformed arrangements for the management and delivery of social care following the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 using a framework drawn from economic sociology. Research findings describing how a group of newly disabled older people fared as consumers of the services are summarized. An explanatory account is given drawing upon concepts and theory to be found in the growing literature on the sociology of economic life,…
Personal Assistants and Disabled People
Welfare states are developing forms of payment for care such that the boundary between ‘work’ and ‘care’ is breaking down. Various types of payment are being introduced, but one of the most interesting is the widespread development of direct payment schemes whereby disabled people are given cash instead of services, and expected to use these monies to purchase directly the services of personal assistants. This paper uses the evidence of a small q…
Thinking about the Production and Consumption of Long-term Care in Britain
This article suggests that the literature on care, which originally was heavily influenced by a gendered perspective, has now taken on other important variables. However, it is argued that if we look at the particular impact of the marketisation and privatisation of long-term care, we can see that gender is still a useful perspective on the production of care, especially paid care. The reordering of the delivery of domiciliary care within the 'mi…
Commodified care work in European Labour Markets
This paper considers the reasons why a form of commodified care work identified as ‘routed wages’ has developed in many European countries over the past decade. These systems, which are often argued for within an empowerment discourse for the care users, are not often considered in terms of their labour market impact. The paper uses empirical data generated in a cross-national qualitative study of care users and their care givers in five European…
Whose empowerment and independence? A cross-national perspective on ‘cash for care’ schemes
This paper uses qualitative data from a cross-national study of ‘cash for care’ schemes in five European countries (Austria, France, Italy, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom) to consider the concepts of empowerment and independence in relation to both care-users and care-givers. The paper locates the schemes along two axes, one of regulation/non-regulation, the other whether relatives can be paid or not. Each of the schemes has a different i…
Gender, labour markets and care work in five European funding regimes1
Care, Work and Feeling
Gender, Care, and the Welfare State
Why do women care? 1
Commentators on women as paid workers and women as housewives have been saying for a very long time that women have ‘two roles’. Women in Britain have apparently worked their way through the minefield of ‘opportunity costs’ by taking on part-time work in unusually large numbers—compared to the rest of the developed capitalist world. Between 1961 and 1978, the number of women working rose from 7.5 million to 9.5 million, and almost all this increa…
Cash for care in developed welfare states
Social Policy and Reform Studies (14 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Economics (11 obras) · Business (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (8 obras) · Medicine (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Economy (5 obras) · Care work (4 obras)