Main description:

In this insightful collection, academic experts consider the impact of neoliberal policies and ideology on the status of care work in Nordic countries. With new research perspectives and empirical analyses, it assesses challenges for care work including technologies, management and policy-making.
Arguing that there is a care crisis even in the supposedly feminist Nordic 'nirvana', this book explores understandings of the care crisis, the serious consequences for gender equality and the hitherto neglected effects on the long-term sustainability of the Nordic welfare states.
This astute take on the Nordic welfare model provides insights into what the Nordic experience can tell us about wider international issues in care.

Contents:

1 Introduction: A care crisis in the Nordic welfare states? - Hanne Marlene Dahl and Lise Lotte Hansen
2 The 'care crisis': its scientific framing and silences - Hanne Marlene Dahl
3 Fraser's care crisis theory meets the Nordic welfare societies - Lise Lotte Hansen, Margunn Bjornholt and Laura Horn
4 Crisis of care: a problem of economisation, of technologisation or of politics of care? - Anne Kovalainen
5 Deteriorating working conditions in elderly care: an invisible crisis of care? - Anneli Stranz
6 Managerialism as a failing response to the care crisis - Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania, Antero Olakivi, Minna Zechner and Lena Nare
7 'We are here for you': care crisis and the (un)learning of good nursing - Carsten Juul Jensen and Steen Baagoe Nielsen
8 Professionalisation of social pedagogues under managerial control: caring for children in a time of care crisis - Steen Baagoe Nielsen
9 Raising quality in Norwegian early childhood centres: (re)producing the care crisis? - Birgitte Ljunggren
10 Conclusion: less caring and less gender- equal Nordic states - Lise Lotte Hansen and Hanne Marlene Dahl
11 Postscript: a care crisis in the time of COVID- 19 - Laura Horn, Carsten Juul Jensen and Birgitte Ljunggren