Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States?

Lise Lotte Hansen is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science and Business, and head of the Centre for Gender, Power and Diversity, both at Roskilde University. She works with social justice perspectives on labour market issues.Hanne Marlene Dahl is Professor in the Department of Social Science and Business at Roskilde University. She works with the state and the governance of care in a context of the Nordic welfare state and care regimes from a feminist perspective. Laura Horn is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science and Business at Roskilde University. Her work is situated within critical political economy.

“Even in the Nordic states, a care crisis is brewing. The authors expose crisis points in health, elderly and child care and offer perspectives to alleviate these crises.” Joan Tronto, University of Minnesota

• 1 Introduction: A care crisis in the Nordic welfare states? - Hanne Marlene Dahl and Lise Lotte Hansen2 The ‘care crisis’: its scientific framing and silences - Hanne Marlene Dahl3 Fraser’s care crisis theory meets the Nordic welfare societies - Lise Lotte Hansen, Margunn Bjørnholt and Laura Horn4 Crisis of care: a problem of economisation, of technologisation or of politics of care? - Anne Kovalainen5 Deteriorating working conditions in elderly care: an invisible crisis of care? - Anneli Stranz6 Managerialism as a failing response to the care crisis - Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania, Antero Olakivi, Minna Zechner and Lena Näre7 ‘We are here for you’: care crisis and the (un)learning of good nursing - Carsten Juul Jensen and Steen Baagøe Nielsen8 Professionalisation of social pedagogues under managerial control: caring for children in a time of care crisis - Steen Baagøe Nielsen9 Raising quality in Norwegian early childhood centres: (re)producing the care crisis? - Birgitte Ljunggren10 Conclusion: less caring and less gender- equal Nordic states - Lise Lotte Hansen and Hanne Marlene Dahl11 Postscript: a care crisis in the time of COVID- 19 - Laura Horn, Carsten Juul Jensen and Birgitte Ljunggren