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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A History of Regulating Working Families: Strains Stereotypes Strategies and Solutions by Dr Grace James Nicole Busby
This book critiques how working families in the UK have been subject to regulation. It has two aims: - To chart the development of the UK’s law and policy framework by focusing on the post-war era and the growth and decline of the welfare state considering a longer historical trajectory where appropriate. - to suggest an alternative policy approach based on Martha Fineman’s vulnerability theory in which the vulnerable subject replaces the liberal subject as the focus of legal intervention. This reorientation enables a more inclusive and cohesive policy approach and has great potential to contribute to the reconciliation of the unresolved conflict between paid work and care-giving.