List of figures -- List of tables -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction : global variations in the political and social economy of care : worlds apart? / Shahra Razavi and Silke Staab -- Care's place re-imagined -- Democratic care politics in an age of limits / Joan Tronto -- Shaping the policy agenda : care in advanced industrialized economies -- Advanced economy, modern welfare state, and traditional care regimes : the case of Switzerland / Mascha Madörin, Brigitte Schnegg and Nadia Baghdadi -- The struggle against familialism : reconfiguring the care diamond in Japan / Emiko Ochiai, Aya Abe, Takafumi Uzuhashi, Yuko Tamiya and Masato Shikata -- The boss, the worker, his wife, and no babies : south korean political and social economy of care in a context of institutional rigidities / Ito Peng -- Different worlds : the challenge of care in a development context -- Beyond maternalism : the political and social organization of childcare in Argentina / Valeria Esquivel and Eleonor Faur -- The limits of family and community care : challenges for public policy in Nicaragua / Juliana Martinez-Franzoni and Koen Voorend -- Care in south Africa : a legacy of family disruption / Debbie Budlender and Francie Lund -- Unpaid and overstretched : coping with HIV & AIDs in Tanzania / Debbie Budlender and Ruth Meena -- Between the state, market, and family : structures, policies, and practices of care in India / Rajni Palriwala and N. Neetha -- The politics of care "going public" : actors and institutions -- Claims and frames in the making of care policies / Fiona Williams -- Harmonizing global care policy? care and the commission on the status of women / Kate Bedford -- Global care chains : the transnational aspects of care -- The globalisation of paid care labour migration : dynamics, impacts, and policy -- Nicola yeates -- Contributors -- Index.