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Changing Relations of WelfaRe For Leonore Davidoff Changing Relations of Welfare family, gender and Migration in Britain and scandinavia Edited by Janet fink The Open University, UK Åsa lundqvist University of Lund, Sweden © Janet fink and Åsa lundqvist 2010 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Janet fink and Åsa lundqvist have asserted their right under the Copyright, designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court east suite 420 union Road 101 Cherry street farnham Burlington surrey, gu9 7Pt vt 05401-4405 england usa www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Changing relations of welfare : family, gender and migration in Britain and scandinavia. 1. family policy--great Britain. 2. family policy-- scandinavia. 3. gender-based analysis--great Britain. 4. gender-based analysis--scandinavia. 5. equality--great Britain. 6. equality--scandinavia. 7. immigrants--great Britain--social conditions--20th century. 8. immigrants-- scandinavia--social conditions. 9. great Britain--social policy. 10. scandinavia--social policy. i. fink, Janet. ii. lundqvist, asa, 1968- 361.6’1’0941-dc22 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Changing relations of welfare : family, gender and migration in Britain and scandinavia / [edited] by Janet fink and asa lundqvist. p. cm. includes bibliographical references and index. isBn 978-0-7546-7893-9 (hbk) -- isBn 978-0-7546-9764-0 (ebook) 1. family policy--great Britain. 2. sex discrimination--great Britain. 3. great Britain--social policy. 4. family policy--scandinavia. 5. sex discrimination--scandinavia. 6. scandinavia-- social policy. i. fink, Janet. ii. lundqvist, asa, 1968- hv700.g7C53 2010 361.6’10941--dc22 2009045787 isBn 978-0-7546-7893-9 (hbk) isBn 978-0-7546-9764-0 (ebk) Contents List of Abbreviations vii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgements xiii 1 introduction 1 Janet Fink and Åsa Lundqvist PaRt I: FaMILy, GenDeR ReLatIonS anD the WeLFaRe State 2 overshadowed by the Male Breadwinner: Care in 20th Century Britain 17 Hilary Land 3 Competing Meanings of gender equality: family, Marriage and tax law in 20th Century denmark 39 Anna-Birte Ravn and Bente Rosenbeck 4 the institutionalization of family and gender equality Policies in the swedish Welfare state 65 Åsa Lundqvist and Christine Roman 5 Paradoxes of gender and Marital status in mid-20th Century British Welfare 87 Janet Fink and Katherine Holden PaRt II: GenDeR, MIGRatIon anD SoCIaL InequaLItIeS 6 Migration, family and British social Policy in the late 20th Century: British Pakistani Perspectives 111 Kaveri Harriss and Alison Shaw 7 the Multicultural Challenge to the danish Welfare state: tensions between gender equality and diversity 133 Birte Siim and Anette Borchorst vi Changing Relations of Welfare 8 Postcolonial encounters: Migrant Women and swedish Midwives 155 Diana Mulinari 9 afterword 179 Janet Fink and Åsa Lundqvist Index 189 list of abbreviations Ca Carers allowance CedaW Committee on the elimination of discrimination against Women dhss department of health and social security dfes department for education and schools ds departementsserien [Ministerial report] eC european Council eeC european economic Community eu european union hMt her Majesty’s treasury iCa invalid Care allowance lpo Läroplanen för förskolan och skolan [national school Curriculum] MWa Moral Welfare association MWC Moral Welfare Council nCuMC national Council for the unmarried Mother and her Child nhs national health service nsPa national spinsters’ Pension association ONS Office for National Statistics oeCd organization for economic Cooperation and development sfi danish institute for social Research sou Statens Offentliga Utredningar [government commission reports] tuC trade union Congress WtC Working tax Credit This page has been left blank intentionally notes on Contributors anette Borchorst is a political scientist and Professor in gender studies at the department of history, international and social studies, aalborg university. her research has focused on changes in welfare and gender equality policies and variations in policy logics in different countries. her publications include ‘danish childcare policies within path-timing, sequence, actors and opportunity structures’ in Childcare and Preschool Development in Europe – Institutional Perspectives (edited by h. Willeken and k. scheiwe, Palgrave Macmillan 2008); ‘Women-friendly paradoxes? Childcare policies and gender equality visions in scandinavia’ in Gender Equality as a Perspective on Welfare: The Limits of Political Ambition? (edited by k. Melby et al., the Policy Press 2008); and ‘Woman-friendly Policies and state feminism: theorising scandinavian gender equality’ in Feminist Theory (2) 2009 (with B. siim). Janet Fink is a senior lecturer in social Policy in the faculty of social sciences at the open university. her main research focuses on the historical and contemporary intersections of social policy, family life and popular culture and she has particular interests in the representations of ‘social problems’. she has recently published work related to these interests in Women’s History Review, Cinemascope, Cultural Studies and Paedagogica Historica. in 2009, together with colleagues at the university of hertfordshire and the open university, she was awarded a grant from the esRC Research seminars Competition to explore the value of visual resources as ‘evidence’ in the policy arena. Kaveri harriss is a post-doctoral research fellow at the sussex Centre for Migration Research. With a background in sociology, anthropology and public health, her research interests focus on the impact of transnationalism on the links between migration and health. her doctoral research, at the london school of hygiene and tropical Medicine, was a study of the material contexts and consequences of long-term ill health among Pakistani migrants in the uk, examining transnational household economies of production, consumption and reproduction. Katherine holden is a senior lecturer in the faculty of social science and humanities at the university of the West of england, Bristol. her main research interests are in historical perspectives on the family, with a particular focus on singleness and the care and welfare of children. her current research is in the history of paid childcare in the parental home. she has published widely with
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