Welfare In An Idle Society

Author : Bernd Marin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351873406

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Welfare in an Idle Society? by Bernd Marin Pdf

The modern welfare state is indeed one of the greatest achievements of the post-war 20th century. With its key aims of eradicating the five giant social ills of Want, Ignorance, Disease, Squalor and Idleness, it aimed to providing a minimum standard of living, with all people of working age paying a weekly contribution; in return, benefits would be paid to anyone who was sick, unemployed, retired or widowed. The modern welfare state, therefore, is about maintaining a delicate equilibrium between dependent social groups on the one hand and the active working classes on the other. In the case of old-age security, this balance is being achieved (or not) by the so-called Generation Contract. This social pact is more of an implicit, unwritten and unspecified social contract. This ground-breaking book demonstrates how countries are addressing population-ageing challenges in depth, using the case study of Austria to gain the required complexity and differentiation in a comparative European framework of empirical evidence. This is a broad social science study in political economy and sociology, not an economic analysis. Though focusing on pensions, it centres on the (im)balance between work and non-work, issues of health, work ability, employability, and benefit receipt from old-age security to disability allowance. It will be required reading for all sociologists and social policy experts and academics working within this area.

Author : David G. Troyansky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317381419

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Aging in World History by David G. Troyansky Pdf

In Aging in World History, David G. Troyansky presents the first global history of aging. At a time when demographic aging has become a source of worldwide concern, and more people are reaching an advanced age than ever before, the history of old age helps us understand how we arrived at the treatment of aging in the modern world. This concise volume expands that history beyond the West to show how attitudes toward aging, the experiences of the aged, and relevant demographic patterns have varied and coalesced over time and across the world. From the ancient world to the present, this book introduces students and general readers to the history of aging on two levels: the experience of individual men and women, and the transformation of populations. With its attention to cultural traditions, medicalization, decades of historical scholarship, and current gerontology, Aging in World History is the perfect starting point for an exploration of this increasingly universal aspect of human experience.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264183070

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OECD Economic Surveys: Austria 2013 by OECD Pdf

OECD's 2013 Economic Survey of Austria examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects. This issue's special chapters cover long-term well-being.

Author : Thomas Boll,Dieter Ferring,Jaan Valsiner
Publisher : IAP
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781641131391

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Cultures of Care in Aging by Thomas Boll,Dieter Ferring,Jaan Valsiner Pdf

This book is about caring for elderly persons in the 21th century. It shows that care has many facets and is influenced by many factors. Central topics of this book thus include the relation between the person depending on care and the care giver(s), the impacts of caregiving on the family and the larger social context, as well as socio-cultural and political aspects underlying the growing need for and the practice of formal and informal care. It is evident that care as a real-life phenomenon of our time needs the co-operation of multiple disciplines to better understand, describe, explain and modify phenomena of elder care. Such a need for cross- disciplinary research is even more urgent given the increasing population aging and the impending gaps between demand and supply of care. The present book is dedicated to this approach and provides a first substantive integration of knowledge from geropsychology, other gerosciences, and cultural psychologies by a multi-disciplinary cast of internationally renowned authors. Cultural psychology emerged as a valuable partner of the gerosciences by contributing essentially to a deeper understanding of the relevant issues. Reading of this book provides the reader—researcher or practitioner—with new insights of where the problems of advancing age take our caring tasks in our 21st century societies and it opens many new directions for further work in the field. Finally and above all, this book is also a strong plea for solidarity between generations in family and society in a rapidly changing globalized world.

Author : United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210598651

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Recommendations on Ageing-related Statistics by United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Pdf

Across the UNECE region, and indeed across most of the world, populations are ageing, bringing both challenges and opportunities which require a carefully devised and evidence-based policy response. Ageing affects virtually all domains of society, from labour markets and public finances to health and social cohesion. The need for relevant statistics is therefore equally wide-ranging. Guided by the framework of the UNECE Regional Implementation Strategy for the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and the Vienna Ministerial Declaration “Ensuring a society for all ages: promoting quality of life and active ageing”, these Recommendations represent the outcome of a multidisciplinary Task Force of statisticians and policymakers. They provide guidance to NSOs for improving the production of ageing-related statistics at all stages of the statistical production cycle, from identification of concepts for measurement, to the communication of results. The publication covers topics related to Demographic measures of ageing, a Longer working life, Social inclusion and subjective well-being, Health and independence in older age, Intergenerational solidarity, Institutional population, and Dissemination and communication.

Author : Marija Wakounig,Markus Peter Beham
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783643904102

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Transgressing Boundaries by Marija Wakounig,Markus Peter Beham Pdf

Since the 1970s, the Centers for Austrian Studies, which were founded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research, have played an important role for the Austrian and international scientific community. Their tasks are to promote studies on Austria and Central Europe through their host nations, as well as to give Austrian students the possibility to conduct research abroad and to get in touch with the local scientific community. This volume contains reports on the activities of these institutions in the academic year 2012/2013, as well as working papers of some their most promising PhD students. Their research presented in the book covers various aspects of Central European history in modern times, ranging from the 17th century to the present. (Series: Europa Orientalis - Vol. 14)

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780745681276

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Turbulent and Mighty Continent by Anthony Giddens Pdf

Winner of the 2014 European Book Prize. A "United States of Europe", Winston Churchill proposed in 1946, could "as if by a miracle transform" that "turbulent and mighty continent". "In this way only", he continued, "will hundreds of millions of toilers be able to regain the simple joys and hopes which make life worth living". Today, nearly seventy years later, over 500 million people live in the member states of the European Union – a greater number than in any other political community save for China and India. The currency of the Union, the euro, is used in economic transactions world-wide. Yet the EU is mired in the greatest crisis of its history, one that threatens its very existence as an entity able to have an impact upon world affairs. Europe no longer seems so mighty, instead but faces the threat of becoming an irrelevant backwater or, worse, once again the scene of turbulent conflicts. Divisions are arising all over Europe, while the popularity of the Union sinks. How can this situation be turned around? Now published as a revised and updated paperback that takes account of the May 2014 elections to the European Parliament, Turbulent and Mighty Continent makes a powerful case for a far-reaching and fundamental renewal of the European project as a whole.

Author : Mark Cowling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230234710

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Marxism and Criminological Theory by Mark Cowling Pdf

This volume looks at Marxist thought in criminology, the work of Willem Bonger, Georg Rusche and Otto Kircheimer, and assesses the role of Marxist analysis in areas such as Critical Criminology and Left Realism. Arguing that Marxism is relevant in the post-Soviet era, it offers a 'toolkit' of Marxist theories and how to use them.

Author : Lorie Charlesworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135179649

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Welfare's Forgotten Past by Lorie Charlesworth Pdf

That ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Poor law was not simply local custom, but consisted of legal rights, duties and obligations that went beyond social altruism. This legal ‘truth’ is, however, still ignored or rejected by some historians, and thus ‘lost’ to social welfare policy-makers. This forgetting or minimising of a legal, enforceable right to relief has not only led to a misunderstanding of welfare’s past; it has also contributed to the stigmatisation of poverty, and the emergence and persistence of the idea that its relief is a 'gift' from the state. Documenting the history and the effects of this forgetting, whilst also providing a ‘legal’ history of welfare, Lorie Charlesworth argues that it is timely for social policy-makers and reformists – in Britain, the United States and elsewhere – to reconsider an alternative welfare model, based on the more positive, legal aspects of welfare’s 400-year legal history.

Author : Gustave Molinari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Social history
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010302219

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The Society of To-morrow by Gustave Molinari Pdf

Author : Michael Walzer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1571810544

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Toward a Global Civil Society by Michael Walzer Pdf

Comprises 26 essays dealing with civil society and social justice in the context of the internationalization of economies and politics. Considers civil society a key to democratic stability and a counterweight to totalitarianism and authoritarian government. Questions the role of the nation State and looks at the possibility of a renewal of democratic socialism.

Author : Colin Crouch
Publisher : Polity
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780745672236

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Making Capitalism Fit For Society by Colin Crouch Pdf

Capitalism is the only complex system known to us that can provide an efficient and innovative economy, but the financial crisis has brought out the pernicious side of capitalism and shown that it remains dependent on the state to rescue it from its own deficiencies. Can capitalism be reshaped so that it is fit for society, or must we acquiesce to the neoliberal view that society will be at its best when markets are given free rein in all areas of life? The aim of this book is to show that the acceptance of capitalism and the market does not require us to accept the full neoliberal agenda of unrestrained markets, insecurity in our working lives, and neglect of the environment and of public services. In particular, it should not mean supporting the growing dominance of public life by corporate wealth. The world’s most successful mature economies are those that fully embrace both the discipline of the market and the need for protection against its negative outcomes. Indeed, a continuing, unresolved clash between these two forces is itself a major source of vitality and innovation for economy and society. But maintenance of that tension depends on the enduring strength of trade unions and other critical groups in civil society - a strength that is threatened by neoliberalism’s increasingly intolerant onward march. Outlining the principles for a renewed and more assertive social democracy, this timely and important book shows that real possibilities exist to create a better world than that which is being offered by the wealthy elites who dominate our public and private lives.

Author : Matthewman, Steve
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800885141

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A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society by Matthewman, Steve Pdf

With contributions from leading experts in the fields of anthropology, communications, disaster studies, economics, epidemiology, Indigenous studies, philosophy and sociology, this expansive book offers a diverse range of social science perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic, providing critical insights into what a research agenda for COVID-19 and society resembles across different fields of study.

Author : Valerie Bryson
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847422972

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Gender and the politics of time by Valerie Bryson Pdf

Women's increased role in the labour market has combined with concerns about the damaging effects of long working hours to push time-related issues up the policy agenda in many Western nations. This wide-ranging and accessible book assesses policy alternatives in the light of feminist theory and factual evidence. The book introduces mainstream ideas on the nature and political significance of time and re-frames them from a feminist perspective to provide a critical overview of policies in Western welfare states. Themes covered include gender differences in time use and the impact of 'time poverty' on women's citizenship; the need to value time spent giving and receiving care; the social meanings of time and whether we can talk about 'women's time' and 'men's time'; and the role of the past in framing policy options today. The book is essential reading for all those interested in gender inequality, time-use or work/rest-of-life balance. It will be an invaluable resource for students and academics throughout the social sciences.

Author : Christopher Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230801967

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Church, Religion and Society in Early Modern Italy by Christopher Black Pdf

Many Italians in the early sixteenth century challenged Church authority and orthodoxy, stimulated by religious 'Reformation' debates and the lack of agreement on alternatives to Rome's leadership. This book surveys and analyses the various positive and negative responses which led to a re-formation of Church institutions, and parish life for the lay population, especially after the Council of Trent in 1563. Church, Religion and Society in Early Modern Italy: - Discusses the roles of bishops and parochial clergy, seminaries and religious education - Examines religious orders and lay confraternities, particularly in relation to 'good works' or philanthropy - Explains the varied uses of the visual arts, music, processions and festivities to enthuse and educate the laity - Pays special attention to two controversial issues: the Inquisition's role and the stricter enclosure of nuns Comprehensive yet approachable, Christopher F. Black's volume incorporates diverse religious practices and experiences, and explores the successes and failures of reform throughout mainland Italy during a period of religious and social upheaval.