Lone Mothers between Paid Work and Care: The Policy Regime in Twenty Countries

Mainstream comparative welfare state research - a review feminist perspectives on comparative welfare state research lone mothers as an analytical category in an examination of how welfare states structure women's relationship to paid work and care - rationale and methods poor mothers - Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom non-poor mothers - the Netherlands poor workers - Austria, Germany, Greece. Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and the United States non-poor workers - Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway and Sweden patterns of convergence and divergence in the configuration of social rights attached to paid work, care and transitions accross 20 countries.