Author: Kimberly J. Morgan
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804754149
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States.
Working Mothers and the Welfare State
Author: Kimberly J. Morgan
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804754149
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804754149
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States.
Beyond the Welfare State?
Author: Christopher Pierson
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271018614
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
First published in 1991, Beyond the Welfare State? has been thoroughly revised and updated for this new edition, which draws on the latest theoretical developments and empirical evidence. It remains the most comprehensive and sophisticated guide to the condition of the welfare state in a time of rapid and sometimes bewildering change. The opening chapters offer a scholarly but accessible review of competing interpretations of the historical and contemporary roles of the welfare state. This evaluation, based on the most recent empirical research, gives full weight to feminist, ecological, and "anti-racist" critiques and also develops a clear account of globalization and its contested impact upon existing welfare regimes. The book constructs a distinctive history of the international growth of welfare states and offers a comprehensive account of recent developments from "crisis" to "structural adjustment." The final chapters bring the story right up to date with an assessment of the important changes effected in the 1990s and the prospects for welfare states in the new millennium.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271018614
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
First published in 1991, Beyond the Welfare State? has been thoroughly revised and updated for this new edition, which draws on the latest theoretical developments and empirical evidence. It remains the most comprehensive and sophisticated guide to the condition of the welfare state in a time of rapid and sometimes bewildering change. The opening chapters offer a scholarly but accessible review of competing interpretations of the historical and contemporary roles of the welfare state. This evaluation, based on the most recent empirical research, gives full weight to feminist, ecological, and "anti-racist" critiques and also develops a clear account of globalization and its contested impact upon existing welfare regimes. The book constructs a distinctive history of the international growth of welfare states and offers a comprehensive account of recent developments from "crisis" to "structural adjustment." The final chapters bring the story right up to date with an assessment of the important changes effected in the 1990s and the prospects for welfare states in the new millennium.
The Work of Politics
Author: Steven Klein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108809286
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
The Work of Politics advances a new understanding of how democratic social movements work with welfare institutions to challenge structures of domination. Klein develops a novel theory that depicts welfare institutions as “worldly mediators,” or sites of democratic world-making fostering political empowerment and participation within the context of capitalist economic forces. Drawing on the writings of Weber, Arendt, and Habermas, and historical episodes that range from the workers' movement in Bismarck's Germany to post-war Swedish feminism, this book challenges us to rethink the distribution of power in society, as well as the fundamental concerns of democratic theory. Ranging across political theory and intellectual history, The Work of Politics provides a vital contribution to contemporary thinking about the future of the welfare state.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108809286
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
The Work of Politics advances a new understanding of how democratic social movements work with welfare institutions to challenge structures of domination. Klein develops a novel theory that depicts welfare institutions as “worldly mediators,” or sites of democratic world-making fostering political empowerment and participation within the context of capitalist economic forces. Drawing on the writings of Weber, Arendt, and Habermas, and historical episodes that range from the workers' movement in Bismarck's Germany to post-war Swedish feminism, this book challenges us to rethink the distribution of power in society, as well as the fundamental concerns of democratic theory. Ranging across political theory and intellectual history, The Work of Politics provides a vital contribution to contemporary thinking about the future of the welfare state.
Working Parents and the Welfare State
Author: Arnlaug Leira
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521571296
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This book uses data from Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden to rethink welfare policy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521571296
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This book uses data from Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden to rethink welfare policy.
Care Work
Author: Madonna Harrington Meyer
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415925419
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Comprises 18 papers which analyse the paid and unpaid care work of individuals, families, communities and social service agency employees, focusing on the gendered construction of care. Examines how the boundaries between public paid work and private family or domestic work are becoming blurred, investigates how welfare states vary in their capacity to support women's choices to perform care work or to use other sources and examines attempts at the reorganization of care work in public and private settings.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415925419
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Comprises 18 papers which analyse the paid and unpaid care work of individuals, families, communities and social service agency employees, focusing on the gendered construction of care. Examines how the boundaries between public paid work and private family or domestic work are becoming blurred, investigates how welfare states vary in their capacity to support women's choices to perform care work or to use other sources and examines attempts at the reorganization of care work in public and private settings.
Wealth and Welfare States
Author: Irwin Garfinkel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019957930X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Including education has profound consequences, undergirding the case for the productivity of welfare state programs and the explanation for why all rich nations have large welfare states, and identifying US welfare state leadership. From 1968 through 2006, the United States swung right politically and lost its lead in education and opportunity, failed to adopt universal health insurance and experienced the most rapid explosion of health care costs and economic inequality in the rich world. The American welfare state faces large challenges. Restoring its historical lead in education is the most important but requires investing large sums in education, beginning with universal pre-school and in complementary programs that aid children's development.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019957930X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Including education has profound consequences, undergirding the case for the productivity of welfare state programs and the explanation for why all rich nations have large welfare states, and identifying US welfare state leadership. From 1968 through 2006, the United States swung right politically and lost its lead in education and opportunity, failed to adopt universal health insurance and experienced the most rapid explosion of health care costs and economic inequality in the rich world. The American welfare state faces large challenges. Restoring its historical lead in education is the most important but requires investing large sums in education, beginning with universal pre-school and in complementary programs that aid children's development.
The Welfare State
Author: David Garland
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199672660
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199672660
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.
The Welfare State Revisited
Author: José Antonio Ocampo
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231546165
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring together distinguished contributors to examine the global variations of social programs and make the case for a redesigned twenty-first-century welfare state. The Welfare State Revisited takes on major debates about social well-being, considering the merits of universal versus targeted policies; responses to market failures; integrating welfare and economic development; and how welfare states around the world have changed since the neoliberal turn. Contributors offer prescriptions for how to respond to the demands generated by demographic changes, the changing role of the family, new features of labor markets, the challenges of aging societies, and technological change. They consider how strengthening or weakening social protection programs affects inequality, suggesting ways to facilitate the spread of effective welfare states throughout the world, especially in developing countries. Presenting new insights into the functions the welfare state can fulfill and how to design a more efficient and more equitable system, The Welfare State Revisited is essential reading on the most discussed issues in social welfare today.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231546165
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring together distinguished contributors to examine the global variations of social programs and make the case for a redesigned twenty-first-century welfare state. The Welfare State Revisited takes on major debates about social well-being, considering the merits of universal versus targeted policies; responses to market failures; integrating welfare and economic development; and how welfare states around the world have changed since the neoliberal turn. Contributors offer prescriptions for how to respond to the demands generated by demographic changes, the changing role of the family, new features of labor markets, the challenges of aging societies, and technological change. They consider how strengthening or weakening social protection programs affects inequality, suggesting ways to facilitate the spread of effective welfare states throughout the world, especially in developing countries. Presenting new insights into the functions the welfare state can fulfill and how to design a more efficient and more equitable system, The Welfare State Revisited is essential reading on the most discussed issues in social welfare today.
Gender and the Welfare State
Author: Mary Daly
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780745622316
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A comparative picture of the welfare state and gender relations.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780745622316
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A comparative picture of the welfare state and gender relations.
Family, Welfare, and the State
Author: Mariarosa Dalla Costa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942173533
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Did the New Deal save the working class or destroy its ability to struggle for the well-being of all.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942173533
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Did the New Deal save the working class or destroy its ability to struggle for the well-being of all.