PREFACE - Per H Jensen
List of Contributors
1. INTRODUCTION: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK - Dagmar Kutsar and Marjo Kuronen (possibly with a contribution by Per Jensen)
PART l
WOMEN’S LOCAL LABOUR MARKETS
2. Integration of women to the local labour markets - Nicola Schwindt and Birgit Pfau-Effinger
3. Urban economic specialization and female participation in the labour market - Roberta Cucca
4. Female Labour Force Participation promoting Social Cohesion - Costanzo Ranci
PART II
LOCAL WELFARE POLICY MAKING
5. Vertical governance, national regulation and autonomy of local policy making - Marjo Kuronen
6. Local policymaking: the playground of ideas, mindsets, strategies and roles - Dagmar Kutsar, Kairi Kasearu and Avo Trumm
7. Local Political Resistance: how local agencies ignore, defy or alter national and supranational policy agendas - Eva Fodor and Dorottya Redai
8. Centralised governance shaping the local welfare policies in the city of Leeds - Sue Yeandle and Erika Kispeter
PART III
LOCAL CHILD CARE POLICY MAKING AND SERVICE PROVISION
9. The relationship between local and national childcare policies - Marjo Kuronen, Teppo Kröger, Roberta Cucca, Anna Escobedo Caparrós, Fernando Antón Alonso and Per H Jensen
10. Child care systems in post-socialist countries: comparative cases from Brno, Szekesfehervar and Tartu - Martina Kampichler, Dorottya Redai and Dagmar Kutsar
11. Local childcare policies impacting the labour force participation of women in Dublin - Evelyn Mahon
PART IV
LOCAL CARE POLICIES AND SYSTEMS FOR OLDER PEOPLE
12. Local elderly care systems in Europe - Patricia Frericks, Ralf Och, Birgit Pfau-Effinger and Nicola Schwindt
13. Local policy making controversies of caring and working - Häli Tarum and Dagmar Kutsar
14. Voluntary organizations and their role in the care for older people - Per H. Jensen
15. CONCLUDING DISCUSSION - Dagmar Kutsar and Marjo Kuronen.