Introduction: Global variations in the political and social economy of care : worlds apart? / Shahra Razavi and Silke Staab -- pt. 1. Care's place re-imagined: Democratic care politics in an age of limits / Joan Tronto -- pt. 2. Shaping the policy agenda : care in advanced industrialized economies: Advanced economy, modern welfare state, and traditional care regimes : the case of Switzerland / Mascha Madörin, Brigitte Schnegg and Nadia Baghdadi ; The struggle against familialism : reconfiguring the care diamond in Japan / Emiko Ochiai, Aya Abe, Takafumi Uzuhashi, Yuko Tamiya and Masato Shikata ; The boss, the worker, his wife, and no babies : South Korean political and social economy of care in a context of institutional rigidities / Ito Peng -- pt. 3. Different worlds? The challenge of care in a development context: Beyond maternalism? The political and social organization of childcare in Argentina / Valeria Esquivel and Eleonor Faur ; The limits of family and community care : challenges for public policy in Nicaragua / Juliana Martinez-Franzoni and Koen Voorend ; Care in South Africa : a legacy of family disruption / Debbie Budlender and Francie Lund ; Unpaid and overstretched : coping with HIV & AIDS in Tanzania / Debbie Budlender and Ruth Meena ; Between the state, market, and family : structures, policies, and practices of care in India / Rajni Palriwala and Neetha N. -- pt. 4. The politics of care "going public" : actors and institutions: Claims and frames in the making of care policies / Fiona Williams ; Harmonizing global care policy? Care and the commission on the status of women / Kate Bedford -- pt. 5. Global care chains : the transnational aspects of care: The globalisation of paid care labour migration : dynamics, impacts, and policy issues / Nicola Yeates.

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