Research Handbook on Social Care Policy

Edited by Costanzo Ranci, Professor of Sociology, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy and Tine Rostgaard, Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark

‘Social care as a field of study comes of age! This important and comprehensive Handbook addresses the distinctive and changing conceptual, institutional, demographic, financial, political, and ethical contours of social care. Leading scholars from different global regions demonstrate the varieties of care systems along with key questions for policy research in the twenty-first century.’

• Contents1 Social care policy in the twenty-first century: an introduction 1Costanzo Ranci and Tine RostgaardPART I SETTING THE SCENE2 The concept of care: from origins to future challenges 21Mary Daly3 Care as unpaid and paid work 37Minna Zechner and Anneli Anttonen4 New demographics, family structures and care responsibilities in Europe 51Katharina Herlofson, Hanna Vangen and Martina Brandt5 Work–care reconciliation: tensions and emerging issues 70Sue Yeandle6 Care actors and relations in feminist welfare state analysis: the unfinishedagenda 88Rossella CicciaPART II THE CARE FIELD7 Changes in long-term care policy: striking a balance betweensustainability and universalism 103Costanzo Ranci and Tine Rostgaard8 Disability politics and social care 119Teppo Kröger and Yueh-Ching Chou9 Early childhood care and education policies: from custody to socialinvestment and beyond 132Stefania SabatinelliPART III THE ORGANIZATION OF CARE10 Financial sustainability and the financing of long-term care systems 152Adelina Comas-Herrera, Martin Knapp and Ricardo Rodrigues11 Marketization and privatization of social care 168Gabrielle Meagher and Marta Szebehely12 Cash-for care in long-term care for older people: a historical andcomparative account 188Costanzo Ranci, Barbara da Roit, Emma Garavaglia and Tine Rostgaard13 Technology for care and living: a critical perspective 206Luciana Lolich and Virpi TimonenPART IV CARE WORK14 Dilemmas of professionalism in care work for older people 221Hanne Marlene Dahl15 Care workers: trends and challenges of the long-term care labour marketacross Europe 236Costanzo Ranci16 The changing relationship between formal and informal care work 250Birgit Pfau-Effinger and Hildegard Theobald17 Migrant workers in long-term care: dynamics and country variations 263Costanzo Ranci, Tine Rostgaard, Giovanni Lamura and August ÖsterlePART V POLICY ISSUES18 Social investment in care policies 280Chiara Saraceno19 Subjective quality of care for children and older people and its spatialvariation: a comparative investigation 294Nevena Kulic and Tine Rostgaard20 User participation in health and social care 311Karen Christensen21 The politics of family and childcare policy reform: do parties still matter? 328Manuel Alvariño and Margarita LeónPART VI THE GEOGRAPHY OF SOCIAL CARE22 Social care policies in East-Asia: reforms between state and market 347Ito Peng and Izumi Niki23 Care for older people in Canada’s resilient liberal welfare regime 363Jane Jenson24 Childcare policy in the liberal welfare states of North America 379Linda A. White, Susan Prentice and Anika Ganness25 Childcare policies in South America: the persistence of selectivity andmaternalism in care services expansion 394Gabriela Marzonetto26 Alike but different? Care for children and older people in the Nordiccaring states 410Guðný Björk Eydal and Tine Rostgaard27 Common trends or diverging paths? Social care policies in ECEC and LTCin England and Scotland since devolution 430Ingela K. Naumann, Bronwen J. Cohen and Joanna Sakali28 Social care policies in conservative welfare states 447Blanche Le Bihan and August Österle29 Limits to growth of familialism? The evolution of care systems inSouthern Europe 462Costanzo Ranci, Marco Arlotti and Stefania Sabatinelli30 Transformation of care regimes in Central Eastern Europe: the case ofCroatia and the Czech Republic 483Ivana Dobrotić and Blanka PlasováPART VII OUTCOMES31 Who will still need me, who will still feed me, when I’m 64? Inequalitiesin long-term care 502Ricardo Rodrigues, Cassandra Simmons, Stefania Ilinca and Eszter Zólyomi32 Unmet needs and care poverty 517Teppo Kröger33 Long-term care systems and their pandemic preparedness: lessons fromCOVID-19 528Margarita Estévez-Abe34 Early childhood education and care in times of COVID-19 542Sonja Blum and Ivana Dobrotić