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Care and Support Rights After Neoliberalism

Balancing Competing Claims Through Policy and Law

Yvette Maker (University of Melbourne)

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English
Cambridge University Press
28 April 2022
This book offers principles for designing care and support policy to address two persistent sources of tension in the field. The first is the tension between supporting women's unpaid caring and supporting their paid work participation. The second is the tension between carers' claims for support based on the 'burden' of caring and disability rights claims for support for choice and independence for people with disabilities. Policies tend to favor one activity and one constituency over the other. Consequently, individuals' access to resources and choices about how they live are constrained. Using a citizenship rights framework, with insights from human rights law, the principles provide guidance for designing policy and legislation that avoids 'either/or' approaches and addresses the interests of multiple constituencies. Analyses of Australian and English policies demonstrate the value of the principles for developing policy that reduces inequality, responds to 'failures' of neoliberalism, and expands choice for all.

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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 158mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   630g
ISBN:   9781108485203
ISBN 10:   1108485200
Series:   Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
Pages:   225
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Yvette Maker is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Melbourne's Social Equity Institute and the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics. She holds qualifications in Law, Arts (Psychology) and Social and Political Sciences. Prior to embarking on an academic career, Yvette worked in research and policy roles in non-profit and government bodies and has provided research support to the Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. With Bernadette McSherry she edited Restrictive Practices in Health Care and Disability Settings: Legal, Policy and Practical Responses (2021).

Reviews for Care and Support Rights After Neoliberalism: Balancing Competing Claims Through Policy and Law

'The fundamental social problem that the book attempts to address is marginalization of those who require care and/or provide care in 'liberal welfare states'' Poland Lai, Canadian Journal of Law and Society/La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société


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