Contradictions of the welfare state, women and caring: municipal homemaking in Finland
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Parti
1. INTRODUCTION 6
2. FEMINIST DEBATES ON FAMILY IDEOLOGY, THE WELFARE
STATE AND CARING 9
2.1. Family ideology 9
2.2. Contradictory debates on the welfare state 12
2.2.1. The patriarchal welfare state 12
2.2.2. The state as an organizer of reproduction 16
2.3. The debate on caring and the extension of women s sphere 18
2.3.1. Rhetorics on community care 20
2.3.2. Compulsory altruism or a labour of love 21
2.3.3. Levels of the concept of caring 22
2.3.4. Towards the everyday world of caring 24
2.3.5. Social care as an extension of mothering 26
Part II
3. METHODOLOGICAL STANDPOINT AND THE RESEARCH SETTING 29
3.1. Research questions 31
3.2. Empirical data: historical documents and theme interviews 32
3.2.1. Documents of civic organizations and those of the parliament 32
3.2.2. Homemaker interviews 33
Part III
4.THE EMERGENCE OF THE HOMEMAKER OCCUPATION IN THE
ACTTVITY OF CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS 36
4.1.Women expressing the need to advise the mother in Finland 37
4.2. The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare 39
4.2.1. The roots of the visiting homemaker system 42
4.2.2. The expansion of care training due to the Second World War 44
4.3. The Population Federation 49
4.3.1. Debates on population policy 50
4.3.2. Training homesisters for middle class households 53
4.3.3. Homesisters as model housewives of the Population Federation 54
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5. GETTING INTO THE STATE: ROOTS OF THE FEMININE SOCIAL
POLICY 59
5.1. Questions of methods and methodology 61
5.2. Visiting lady homemakers for poor country families 62
5.3. The politics behind going public 68
5.4. The Municipal Homemaker Act of 1950 71
5.4.1. The homemaker as an adviser and a substitute for poor overworked
mothers 72
5.4.2. Municipal homemakers as social carers in the feminine welfare
state 73
5.4.3. Homemakers work at homes 77
5.5. A special training for homemakers 79
5.6. Autonomy and career opportunities in homemaking 80
6. FROM AGRARIAN FEMININE SOCIAL POLICY TO WAGE LABOUR
RELATED CARE 83
6.1. Home help to elderly clients and wage earning mothers 84
6.2. Homemakers as providers of extended social care 86
6.2.1. Mobile carers 87
6.2.2. Home helps and supervisory homemakers 89
6.3. Gendered conditions at work 90
6.4. The training up dated 93
6.5. The expansion of mobile carers by the VALTAVA reform 94
6.6. Feminine social policy and women as creators of the welfare state 98
Part IV
7. MUNICIPAL HOMEMAKERS VOICES FROM THE GRASS ROOTS
LEVEL OF THE WELFARE STATE 101
7.1. Theme interviews between women a methodological excursion 102
7.1.1. Dialogue interviews and friendship in research 102
7.1.2. A feminist analysis 104
7.2. Generations of homemakers 107
7.2.1. Pioneers in the field 108
7.2.2. Balancing in between changes 111
7.2.3. Homemaking as any other waged work 113
8. STATE INTERVENTION IN HOMES A FEMINIST APPROACH 115
8.1. The dilemma of regulating women s lives 115
8.1.1. From helping to self help 115
8.1.2. The homemaker and the mother around the kitchen table 119
8.1.3. Competition and tensions between two women 122
8.2. Sexuality and gendered caring 126
8.2.1. Sexual harassment by men 127
8.2.2 Breaking out of the moral code 131
8.3. Gender and caring 133
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9. THE NATURE OF CARING WORK IN THE SEMI PUBLIC SPHERE 140
9.1. The grey zone of caring 140
9.2. The notion of being professional 147
9.2.1. Supervisors hierarchies for women s advantage 149
9.2.2. Tensions between homemakers and home helps 152
9.3. Changing demands at work 154
9.3.1. Homemakers and the care of the frail elderly 154
9.3.2. Problem clients and skills in the caring work 158
10. THE STATE EMPLOYER AND WOMEN S WORK 162
10.1. Working conditions of today s homemakers 163
10.1.1. Hard work and low pay a reality to cope with 163
10.1.2. Homemakers state of health 166
10.2. Contradictions in the labour of love 168
10.2.1. Double working day and relaxing from work 170
10.2.2. Pros and cons at work. 175
10.2.3. The future of homemaking 176
10.3. The everyday world of caring 178
PartV
11. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 180
REFERENCES 185
APPENDICES 205
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