The Welfare State And Life Transitions

Author : Dominique Anxo,Gerhard Bosch,Jill Rubery
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849806381

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The Welfare State and Life Transitions by Dominique Anxo,Gerhard Bosch,Jill Rubery Pdf

The Welfare State and Life Transitions uses the lens of key life stages to highlight changes in these transitions and in available resources for citizen support within nine European welfare states. This timely book reveals that new life courses are found to require more, and not less welfare support, but only Sweden has developed an active life course approach and only three more could be considered supportive, in at least some life stages. For the remainder, policies were at best limited or, in Italy.s case, passive. The contributors reveal that the neglect of changing needs is leading to greater reliance on the family and the labour market, just as these support structures are becoming more unpredictable and moreunequal. They argue that alongside these new class inequalities, new forms of intergenerational inequality are also emerging, particularly in pension provision.

Author : G. Bosch,J. Rubery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:728836414

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Author : Gøsta Esping-Andersen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857021861

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Welfare States in Transition by Gøsta Esping-Andersen Pdf

This wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary and future changes in welfare states looks at the different trajectories of the welfare states of Europe, North America, the Antipodes, and the emerging scenarios in Latin America, East Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Leading experts on each of these regions examine the current structures of social protection, consider the causes of the current welfare state crisis and highlight evolving trends for welfare policy. Different welfare states are shown to manifest different forms of crisis. Among the symptoms of crisis, Welfare States in Transition suggests that the effect of popluation ageing is exaggerated, and an at least equally fundamental challenge lies in the revolution of the modern family and the changing economic role of women. The contributors are sceptical about the neo-liberal formula for reform, not only because it increases inequality but also because it does not address the growing need for an active social investment policy to ensure against entrapment in poverty or low-paid jobs.

Author : Norman Johnson
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0870236180

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The Welfare State in Transition by Norman Johnson Pdf

Focusing on welfare states in capitalist societies, The Welfare State in Transition carries forward the debate on pluralism, identifying and discussing the problems involved in transferring responsibility for welfare services from the state to the other three sectors.

Author : Edmund Sherman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438419848

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Meaning in Mid-Life Transitions by Edmund Sherman Pdf

This book contributes to an understanding of the nature of mid-life transitions and crises by focusing on the unique personal meaning of the transitional experience for the individual. There is an implicit structure to the way in which such a transition is experienced by the individual, and this can be made explicit by the techniques and methods of the approach outlined and illustrated in the book. The value of making this structure explicit is that it enables us to understand and assess the nature and dimensions of the transition, whether or not it will reach crisis proportions, and to assess possible intervention strategies. Meaning in Mid-Life Transitions should be of interest to human service practitioners as well as teachers and students of human development and behavior. It evidences an integrative approach and structural framework, including a series of in-depth clinical and research studies.

Author : Gøsta Esping-Andersen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761950486

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Welfare States in Transition by Gøsta Esping-Andersen Pdf

This book offers a global level comparison between welfare states, actual and emerging, in Europe, East Asia, Australia, North & Latin America. The consequences of an ageing population, deregulation and heightened inequality are discussed in detail.

Author : Wilson, Shaun
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447341215

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Living Wages and the Welfare State by Wilson, Shaun Pdf

Are living wages an unaffordable and unwieldy aspiration or a key progressive reform? Demands for fair minimum incomes have dominated national debates amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This topical book addresses the rapidly shifting politics of minimum wages in US, the UK, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and Australia, where workfare has compelled many to find low-income work and where neoliberal thinking about minimum wages has prevailed. Analysing minimum wage policies within a political-economy narrative, this innovative book offers an alternative to the Basic Income narrative and identifies the success of Living Wage campaigns as central to welfare state change.

Author : T. Knijn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137284198

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Work, Family Policies and Transitions to Adulthood in Europe by T. Knijn Pdf

This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and tries to create their own autonomous household, with or without children, exploring questions such as what does it mean to be a young adult in Europe today and what social policies help them to combine work and family life?

Author : Barbara Stauber,Andreas Walther,Richard A. Settersten, Jr.
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031135125

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Doing Transitions in the Life Course by Barbara Stauber,Andreas Walther,Richard A. Settersten, Jr. Pdf

This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. Here, transitions are understood as social processes and practices. Leveraging the recent “practice turn” in the social sciences, the contributors analyze how life course transitions are “done.” This book introduces the concept of “doing transitions” and its implications for theories and methods. It presents fresh empirical research on “doing transitions” in different life phases (e.g., childhood, young adulthood, later life) and life domains (e.g., education, work, family, health, migration). It also emphasizes themes related to institutions and organizations, time and normativity, materialities (such as bodies, spaces, and artifacts), and the reproduction of social inequalities in education and welfare. In coupling this new perspective with empirical illustrations, this book is an indispensable resource for scholars from demography, sociology, psychology, social work and other scientific fields, as well as for students, counselors and practitioners, and policymakers.

Author : Maria Karamessini,Jill Rubery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135073985

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Women and Austerity by Maria Karamessini,Jill Rubery Pdf

Austerity has become the new principle for public policy in Europe and the US as the financial crisis of 2008 has been converted into a public debt crisis. However, current austerity measures risk losing past progress towards gender equality by undermining important employment and social welfare protections and putting gender equality policy onto the back burner. This volume constitutes the first attempt to identify how the economic crisis and the subsequent austerity policies are affecting women in Europe and the US, tracing the consequences for gender equality in employment and welfare systems in nine case studies from countries facing the most severe adjustment problems. The contributions adopt a common framework to analyse women in recession, which takes into account changes in women’s position and current austerity conditions. The findings demonstrate that in the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis, employment gaps between women and men declined — but due only to a deterioration in men’s employment position rather than any improvements for women. Tables are set to be turned by the austerity policies which are already having a more negative impact on demand for female labour and on access to services which support working mothers. Women are nevertheless reinforcing their commitment to paid work, even at this time of increasing demands on their unpaid domestic labour. Future prospects are bleak. Current policy is reinforcing the same failed mechanisms that caused the crisis in the first place and is stalling or even reversing the long term growth in social investment in support for care. This book makes the case for gender equality to be placed at the centre of any progressive plan for a route out of the crisis.

Author : Johanna Hiitola,Kati Turtiainen,Sabine Gruber,Marja Tiilikainen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429656118

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Family Life in Transition by Johanna Hiitola,Kati Turtiainen,Sabine Gruber,Marja Tiilikainen Pdf

This volume examines the ways in which bordering practices influence the everyday lives of racialized parents in the changing welfare states of Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Focusing on the need to negotiate, adjust, and reconcile family life, parenthood and parenting practices in the face of national, material, ideological, cultural, religious, and moral borders, it considers the manner in which these processes are complicated by recent changes in the legitimation of Nordic welfare states. The case studies centre on migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker parents, as well as parents of the indigenous Sámi communities. The book considers the ways in which the welfare state and its services construct borders of respectable parenthood, and examines the efforts on the part of racialized parents to negotiate such borders and organize their transnational everyday lives. Uncovering possibilities and obstacles that exist for families seeking to enact citizenship in the Nordic welfare states, Family Life in Transition will appeal to social scientists with interests in the sociology of the family, children, parenting, and the welfare state.

Author : L. Antonucci,M. Hamilton,Steven Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137370525

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Young People and Social Policy in Europe by L. Antonucci,M. Hamilton,Steven Roberts Pdf

This edited collection provides the first in-depth analysis of social policies and the risks faced by young people. The book explores the effects of both the economic crisis and austerity policies on the lives of young Europeans, examining both the precarity of youth transitions, and the function of welfare state policies.

Author : Nick Hubble,Jennie Taylor,Philip Tew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350033122

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Growing Old with the Welfare State by Nick Hubble,Jennie Taylor,Philip Tew Pdf

The combined effect of the welfare state and medical advances means that more people now live longer lives than ever before in history. As a consequence, the experience of ageing has been transformed. Yet our cultural and social perceptions of ageing remain governed by increasingly dated images and narratives. Growing Old with the Welfare State challenges these stereotypes by bringing together eight previously unpublished stories of ordinary British people born between 1925 and 1945 to show contemporary ageing in a new light. These biographical narratives, six of which were written as part of the Mass Observation Project, reflect on and compare the experience of living in two post-war periods of social change, after the first and second world wars. In doing so, these stories, along with their accompanying contextual chapters, provide a valuable and accessible resource for social historians, and expose both historical and contemporary views of age and ageing that challenge modern assumptions.

Author : Christoph Hermann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317596349

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Capitalism and the Political Economy of Work Time by Christoph Hermann Pdf

John Maynard Keynes expected that around the year 2030 people would only work 15 hours a week. In the mid-1960s, Jean Fourastié still anticipated the introduction of the 30-hour week in the year 2000, when productivity would continue to grow at an established pace. Productivity growth slowed down somewhat in the 1970s and 1980s, but rebounded in the 1990s with the spread of new information and communication technologies. The knowledge economy, however, did not bring about a jobless future or a world without work, as some scholars had predicted. With few exceptions, work hours of full-time employees have hardly fallen in the advanced capitalist countries in the last three decades, while in a number of countries they have actually increased since the 1980s. This book takes the persistence of long work hours as starting point to investigate the relationship between capitalism and work time. It does so by discussing major theoretical schools and their explanations for the length and distribution of work hours, as well as tracing major changes in production and reproduction systems, and analyzing their consequences for work hours. Furthermore, this volume explores the struggle for shorter work hours, starting from the introduction of the ten-hour work day in the nineteenth century to the introduction of the 35-hour week in France and Germany at the end of the twentieth century. However, the book also shows how neoliberalism has eroded collective work time regulations and resulted in an increase and polarization of work hours since the 1980s. Finally, the book argues that shorter work hours not only means more free time for workers, but also reduces inequality and improves human and ecological sustainability.

Author : Dimitri Mortelmans,Koenraad Matthijs,Elisabeth Alofs,Barbara Segaert
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785364983

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Changing Family Dynamics and Demographic Evolution by Dimitri Mortelmans,Koenraad Matthijs,Elisabeth Alofs,Barbara Segaert Pdf

Whether considered from an American or a European perspective, the past four decades have seen family life become increasingly complex. Changing Family Dynamics and Demographic Evolution examines the various stages of change through the image of a kaleidoscope, providing new insights into the field of family dynamics and diversity.