Cash and care: Policy challenges in the welfare state

CASH AND CARE\n	Contents\n	List of figures and tables\n	Foreword\n	Acknowledgements\n	Notes on contributors\n	Part One: Introduction\n		Introduction\n	Part Two: New theoretical perspectives on care and policy\n		Care and gender\n		Research on care\n		‘Pseudo-democracy and spuriousprecision’\n	Part Three: Traditional forms of disadvantage: new perspectives\n		The costs of caring for a disabled child\n		Disability, poverty and living standards\n		Consumers without money\n		Affordable credit for low-income households\n		Carers and employment in a work-focused welfare state\n	Part Four: Families, care work and the state\n		Paying family caregivers\n		Developments in Austrian care arrangements\n		When informal care becomes a paid job\n		Better off in work?\n		Reciprocity, lone parents and state subsidy for informal childcare\n		Helping out at home\n	Part Five: From welfare subjects to active citizens\n		Making connections\n		Independent living\n		Securing the dignity and quality of life of older citizens\n	Part Six: Conclusions\n		Conclusions\n	References\n	Index