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This book provides insights into the theoretical framework of ´tensions´ related to care for children and the elderly. It analyzes if, and under what conditions, welfare state reforms have contributed to strengthening existing tensions, creating new tensions, or relaxing such tensions.

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Tensions Related to Care in European Welfare States; B.Pfau-Effinger & T.Rostgaard Theorising Care and Care Work; A.Anttonen & M.Zechner Tensions between Care Values and Care Policies in European Societies; B.Pfau-Effinger Tensions in Family Policies in Post-Communist Central Europe; S.Saxonberg Nordic Child Care - a Response to Old and New Tensions?; G.Eydal & T.Rostgaard Tensions Related to the Transition of Elderly Care from an Unpaid to a Paid Activity; P.H.Jensen & R.Juul M›berg Under Tension: Formal Care Work with Older People; T.Kröger Tensions Related to Care Migration - The South-North Divide of Long Term Care; T.Rostgaard, C.Chiatti & G.Lamura Migrant Carers in Eldercare Provision: Interaction of Policy Fields; H.Theobald Tensions Related to Cash for Care Schemes; B.Da Roit & B.Le Bihan

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´It is very difficult to provide a convincing account of a field that is changing rapidly. This book achieves that task with a narrative that is both empirically wide-ranging and theoretically coherent. The Europe-wide scope of the book is particularly valuable as is its focus on the nature and impact of change and reform in policies and people´s everyday lives. The reader will be invaluably instructed and impressed by the collection.´

- Professor Mary Daly, Queen´s University Belfast, Ireland

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ANNELI ANTTONEN Professor in Social Policy and Doctor of Social Sciences at the University of Tampere, Finland BLANCHE LE BIHAN Researcher in the School of Public Health, EHESP, France GUÐNí BJÖRK EYDAL Professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Iceland, Iceland TEPPO KRÖGER Senior Lecturer of Social Work at the University of Tampere, Finland INGELA NAUMANN Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh, UK BARBARA DA ROIT Assistant Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands STEVEN SAXONBERG Professor of Sociology at the University of Brno, Czech Republic MAIKE SMIDT University of Hamburg, Germany MINNA ZECHNER University of Tampere, Finland

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