This book explores the experiences of informal home carers in the different welfare systems of the former West Germany and East Germany, and Britain. It is inno

This work examines the experience of women providing care to children, disabled persons, the chronically ill, and the frail elderly. It differs from most writin

Mixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursing, Taking Car