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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Taking the Low Road: The Political Economy of Household Services in Europe
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The Politics of Subsidising Domestic Services in Europe
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Taking the Low Road? The Development of a Low-End Service Economy for Europe
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Money Well Spent? Services Used, Beneficiaries and Employment Effect of These Policies
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
"This is a wonderfully illuminating book presenting a new incisive analysis of the political economy of household services. It throws light on the increasing use of tax breaks in Continental and Nordic welfare states to support the private employment of household and care services. While the political legitimacy for this is that it helps the productivity of skilled professional workers in the knowledge economy and employment for those marginalised from the labor market, the reality is new social, gendered and ethnic inequalities and labour market dualisms. A major contribution to understanding the contradictions of neo-liberal welfare polices." - Fiona Williams, University of Leeds, UK
"Using public policy to create new incentive structures for the marketization of household services is one of the very important albeit under-analysed directions of change as welfare regimes are restructured. Nathalie Morel and Clément Carbonnier have assembled a truly impressive array of experts to describe and assess this redesign and thereby to make it fully visible to social policy analysis. The cross-disciplinary approach bringing together, among others, political scientists, economists and sociologists provides a rich array of lens with which to view reliance on tax credits to replace more familiar policy instruments in order to achieve market-making policy effects." - Jane Jenson, Université de Montréal, Canada
"This book puts into perspective some celebratedemployment miracles, which, if on the one hand they allowed low skilled individuals to access jobs, at the same time reinforced old inequalities and generated new ones. With its multidisciplinary approach, this book sheds light on the increasing use of fiscal instruments in Continental and Nordic welfare states to foster low skilled employment, on the labour market outcomes of these policies, as well as on their social and welfare consequences. A recommended reading to all those who want to understand the complexity of post-industrial societies." - Giuliano Bonoli, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, Switzerland
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Clément Carbonnier
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Sciences Po, France
Nathalie Morel
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Political Economy of Household Services in Europe
Editors: Clément Carbonnier, Nathalie Morel
Series Title: Work and Welfare in Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137473721
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47371-4Published: 17 September 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47372-1Published: 01 September 2015
Series ISSN: 2947-4124
Series E-ISSN: 2947-4132
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 288
Topics: Social Policy, Sociology of Work, European Politics, International Political Economy, Social Policy, Labor Economics