Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices
By (Author) Debra King
Edited by Professor Gabrielle Meagher
Sydney University Press
Sydney University Press
10th December 2008
Australia
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
362.610994
Physical Properties
Paperback
252
Width 148mm, Height 210mm, Spine 17mm
355g
Description
Care of Australia's children and elderly is provided in a mixed economy, in which for-profit providers play an increasingly important role along side more traditional organisations. Leading researchers explore the shift and concequences towards for-profit provision of social care.
Reviews
'The editors of Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices set out an ambitious agenda: to explore indepth the processes and consequences of the shift to forprofit provision of social care. The text focuses primarily on Australia, though in several of the chapters, the authors make comparisons to similarly situated highly industrialised countries, specifically the United States and Sweden. The editors substantially achieve their goal in this timely and thorough examination.'
-- Mary Carlsen * Health and Social Care in the Community *Author Bio
About the editors:
Debra King is an associate professor of sociology at Flinders University.
Gabrielle Meagher is a professor of social policy at Macquarie University.
