Download or read book Citizens who Care written by Inge Bleijenbergh and published by Rozenberg Publishers. This book was released on 2005-02-28 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study chronicles the entry of the controversial issue of combining work and family life into the European political agenda and shows how concrete policies on childcare and part-time work were debated between different member states and European institutions. Moreover, it argues that European debates on social care rights exemplify traces of an emerging European citizenship. European rights regarding time of care and care services unite the contradictory demands for social equality and a free market, offering citizens basic social equality, while simultaneously supplying the common market with a female labour force.