Cover -- CASH AND CARE - Policy challenges in the welfare state -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Part One - Introduction -- ONE - Introduction -- Part Two - New theoretical perspectives on care and policy -- TWO - Care and gender: have the arguments for recognising carework now been won? -- Introduction -- The context: family, labour market and welfare state change -- Recent developments in policies about care at the EU and UK levels -- Policies for care -- THREE - Research on care: what impact on policy and planning? -- Introduction -- The Nordic context of research on care -- Nordic research on care from the 1990s - two parallel discourses with different impacts -- Nordic feminist research on care - developments over time -- The 'rationality of caring' - a fruitful concept for research on public care -- The need for a new paradigm in research on care -- FOUR - 'Pseudo-democracy and spurious precision': knowledge dilemmas in the new welfare state -- Introduction -- The changing context of knowledge: the welfare state meets modernity -- The relationship of evidence to policy making -- The limits of knowledge about the social world -- The social model of and response to disability -- Conclusions -- Part Three - Traditional forms of disadvantage: new perspectives -- FIVE - The costs of caring for a disabled child -- The impact of research on policy -- The costs to families of having a child with a disability -- The impact on policy -- Continuity and change in help for children with disabilities -- To whom should benefits be paid? -- Conclusion -- SIX - Disability, poverty and living standards: reviewing Australian evidence and policies -- Introduction -- The policy context -- Comparing living standards -- Attitudes to mutual obligation -- Conclusions.

SEVEN - Consumers without money: consumption patterns and citizenship among low-income families in Scandinavian welfare societies -- Introduction -- Consumption studies and social inequality -- Theorising 'freedom of choice' -- Methods -- Experiences of consumption in low-income families -- Conclusion: the significance of uneven access to consumption -- EIGHT - Affordable credit for low-income households -- The main credit sources available to low-income households -- Credit use by people on low incomes -- Lending to low-income borrowers -- Extent of need for affordable credit -- Widening access to more affordable credit -- Conclusion -- NINE - Carers and employment in a work-focused welfare state -- The risk of informal caring -- Carers and the welfare state -- Helping carers to work -- Conclusions -- Part Four - Families, care work and the state -- TEN - Paying family caregivers: evaluating different models -- Introduction -- Payments for informal care - at the intersection of multiple policy domains -- Different models and rationales -- Conclusions: payment for informal care is not enough -- ELEVEN - Developments in Austrian care arrangements: women between free choice and informal care -- Introduction -- Caregiving parity and freedom of choice -- Developments in childcare -- Developments in long-term care -- Conclusions -- TWELVE - When informal care becomes a paid job: the case of Personal Assistance Budgets in Flanders -- Introduction -- The Personal Assistance Budget: a hybrid scheme -- Profiles of the budget holders and their personal assistants -- Why do people opt for paid informal care? -- The overall support arrangements of the budget holders -- The outcomes of the PAB -- Conclusions: between labour and care -- THIRTEEN - Better off in work? Work, security and welfare for lone mothers -- Introduction.

Paid work: family and employment histories -- Being better off in work? -- Security and stability -- Conclusion -- FOURTEEN - Reciprocity, lone parents and state subsidy for informal childcare -- Introduction -- Background -- Studies in negotiating care -- Lone parents and informal childcare -- Negotiating childcare -- Conclusions -- FIFTEEN - Helping out at home: children's contributions to sustaining work and care in lone-mother families -- Introduction -- The research -- Maternal employment and children: understanding the context -- What roles do children play in low-income lone-mother households? -- Conclusions -- Part Five - From welfare subjects to active citizens -- SIXTEEN - Making connections: supporting new forms of engagement by marginalised groups -- Introduction -- Context: the residualisation of state welfare provision in the UK -- Challenges to traditional public welfare provision -- Service user movements: the growth of active citizens -- Competing concepts of involvement -- Declining conventional political participation -- Successful involvement in political activities -- Managerialist/consumerist approaches to participation: outcomes and impact -- Democratic approaches to participation: seeds of optimism -- SEVENTEEN - Independent living: the role of the disability movement in the development of government policy -- Introduction -- The government's proposals -- What are the factors that have brought these policy changes about? -- The role of research evidence in influencing government policy -- Does the emphasis on 'choice' undermine public services? -- Are the current proposals sufficient to deliver self-determination for disabled people? -- Conclusion -- EIGHTEEN - Securing the dignity and quality of life of older citizens -- The 'active' and 'independent' citizen -- Independence -- Choice.

Residential and domiciliary care markets in England -- Quality of care -- Accountability -- An ethics of care -- Part Six - Conclusions -- NINETEEN - Conclusions -- Challenging assumptions about care work -- Commodifying care work -- Welfare states and their citizens -- Challenging disability -- New dilemmas -- Future challenges - research and its contribution to policy -- References -- Index.