Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices

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.

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.

'The editors of Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices set out an ambitious agenda: to explore in-depth the processes and consequences of the shift to for-profit 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 *