Work–care reconciliation: tensions and emerging issues

Sue Yeandle

Chapter 5 in Research Handbook on Social Care Policy, 2025, pp 70-87 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter explores concepts and theoretical approaches used in examining the relationship between the operation of the labour market and the care of young children and persons with illness or disability. It reviews policy developments designed to ‘reconcile’ work and care over some 60 years, highlighting unsolved challenges and new problems likely to be important in the future. The chapter examines shifts in public policy, organizational arrangements and social attitudes that have seen governments allocate public funds to care and legislate for policies to help workers reconcile working and caring responsibilities. It traces the path from an initial focus on support for ‘working mothers’ to today's broader concern with ‘working carers’. Discussing major changes around the world in how paid work is organized and care needs are addressed, it also considers why women still provide the majority of care and men still occupy most of the world's best-rewarded jobs.

Keywords: Reconciliation of work and care; Provision of care; Labour market restructuring; Flexible working; ECEC (childcare); Eldercare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781839103681
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