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A History of Regulating Working Families: Strains, Stereotypes, Strategies and Solutions

by Nicole Busby
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781849465571
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Hart Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Hart Publishing
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 172
  • Original Price: GBP 85.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 367 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Family Law / General

Families in market economies have long been confronted by the demands of participating in paid work and providing care. Across Europe the social, economic and political environment within which families do so has been subject to substantial change in the post-World War II era and governments have come under increasing pressure to engage with this important area of public policy. In the UK, as elsewhere, the tensions which lie at the heart of the paid work/unpaid care conflict remain unresolved posing substantial difficulties for all of law's subjects both as carers and as the recipients of care. What seems like a relatively simple goal - to enable families to better balance care-giving and paid employment - has been subject to and shaped by shifting priorities over time leading to a variety of often conflicting policy approaches.
This book critiques how working families in the UK have been subject to regulation. It has two aims:
- To chart the development of the UK's law and policy framework by focusing on the post-war era and the growth and decline of the welfare state, considering a longer historical trajectory where appropriate.

- To suggest an alternative policy approach based on Martha Fineman's vulnerability theory in which the vulnerable subject replaces the liberal subject as the focus of legal intervention. This reorientation enables a more inclusive and cohesive policy approach and has great potential to contribute to the reconciliation of the unresolved conflict between paid work and care-giving.

Busby, Nicole: - Nicole Busby is Professor of Human Rights, Equality and Justice at the University of Glasgow. She has published widely in the areas of labour law and equality law and has a particular interest in gender equality and the regulation of paid work and unpaid care.

James, Grace: - Grace James is Professor of Law at the University of Reading. Her research focuses primarily on the legal rights of working carers and she is particularly interested in the gendered nature of employment laws.

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