Over the last 20 years there has been a flourishing of work on feminist care ethics. This
collection makes a unique contribution to this body of work. The international contributors …

Vanhushoivajärjestelmää uhkaa työntekijäpula. Maltillistenkin arvioiden mukaan tuhansia
hoivatai hoitotyön koulutuksen saaneita ammattilaisia työskentelee Suomessa sosiaali-ja …

In economically constrained public welfare provision, professionals with administrative
assignments must allegedly adjust their actions in response to a persistent dilemma …

Care work for elderly people has been characterised as dirty work, owing to its proximity to
the (dys) functions and discharges of aged bodies and the notions of disease, decay and …

It seems an impossible task to write critically and reflexively about the contemporary status of
research on neo-liberalism. This can be blamed on both the broad, elusive usage of neo …

For several decades now, elder care services have been characterised by recurring crises in
Finland. In 2006, a political scandal erupted when allegations became public of insufficient …

In ganz Europa wird die Frage nach der Zukunftsfähigkeit der unterschiedlichen
wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Systeme diskutiert. Gesucht wird unter anderem nach innovativen …

Hjemmeplejen i de nordiske lande har gennem mange år været genstand for
reformprogrammer og reorganiseringer. Det nyeste tiltag er i disse år indførelsen af …

Healthy and active ageing has become an ideal in W estern societies. In the N ordic
countries, this ideal has been supported through a policy of help to self‐help in elder care …

3 and Szebehely, 2012) and 'care work friendly'(Wrede et al, 2008). A space that is also
defined as 'potentially women-friendly'states (Hernes, 1987), which in today's lingo …