Workers And Welfare

Author : Michelle Dion
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780822973638

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After the revolutionary period of 1910-1920, Mexico developed a number of social protection programs to support workers in public and private sectors and to establish safeguards for the poor and the aged. These included pensions, healthcare, and worker's compensation. The new welfare programs were the product of a complex interrelationship of corporate, labor, and political actors. In this unique dynamic, cross-class coalitions maintained both an authoritarian regime and social protection system for some seventy years, despite the ebb and flow of political and economic tides. By focusing on organized labor, and its powerful role in effecting institutional change, Workers and Welfare chronicles the development and evolution of Mexican social insurance institutions in the twentieth century. Beginning with the antecedents of social insurance and the adoption of pension programs for central government workers in 1925, Dion's analysis shows how the labor movement, up until the 1990s, was instrumental in expanding welfare programs, but has since become largely ineffective. Despite stepped-up efforts, labor has seen the retrenchment of many benefits. Meanwhile, Dion cites the debt crisis, neoliberal reform, and resulting changes in the labor market as all contributing to a rise in poverty. Today, Mexican welfare programs emphasize poverty alleviation, in a marked shift away from social insurance benefits for the working class.

Author : Krys Maki
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773634944

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A comprehensive examination of welfare state surveillance and regulation of single mothers in Ontario.

Author : Price V. Fishback,Shawn Everett Kantor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226251646

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A Prelude to the Welfare State by Price V. Fishback,Shawn Everett Kantor Pdf

Workers' compensation was arguably the first widespread social insurance program in the United States and the most successful form of labor legislation to emerge from the early Progressive Movement. Adopted in most states between 1910 and 1920, workers' compensation laws have been paving seen as the way for social security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, and eventually the broad network of social welfare programs we have today. In this highly original and persuasive work, Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor challenge widespread historical perceptions, arguing that, rather than being an early progressive victory, workers' compensation succeeded because all relevant parties—labor and management, insurance companies, lawyers, and legislators—benefited from the legislation. Thorough, rigorous, and convincing, A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation is a major reappraisal of the causes and consequences of a movement that ultimately transformed the nature of social insurance and the American workplace.

Author : Steven Hick,Jackie Stokes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1550772813

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Social Welfare in Canada, 4th Edition by Steven Hick,Jackie Stokes Pdf

The ?social safety net? created in Canada after World War II faced serious challenges from the early 1980s onwards. Neoliberal economic policies pursued by successive federal and provincial governments left many groups of people ? especially those in precarious work, women, racialized minorities, older individuals and Indigenous communities ? highly vulnerable and seriously under-protected. Social justice and full equality can come about only if systemic barriers such as these are acknowledged and completely eliminated. About This Edition This edition focuses on the transformative social policies and universal programs that are needed to promote personal and social well-being and ensure full equality of opportunity for all. Social workers at home and abroad are committed to building inclusive communities, promoting participatory democracy, fighting racism, and actively addressing the problems of economic sustainability, and climate change. The social work profession provides an excellent opportunity to join with health care professionals and others to bring about the fundamental changes necessary to ensure full inclusion, equity and social justice, and a safer and prosperous future.

Author : Michelle L. Dion
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0822960451

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Dion' study examines the major political role of organized labor in establishing and effecting change in Mexico's social protection programs throughout the twentieth-century.

Author : Robert Castel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351518628

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From Manual Workers to Wage Laborers by Robert Castel Pdf

In this monumental book, sociologist Robert Castel reconstructs the history of what he calls "the social question," or the ways in which both labor and social welfare have been organized from the Middle Ages onward to contemporary industrial society. Throughout, the author identifies two constants bearing directly on the question of who is entitled to relief and who can be excluded: the degree of embeddedness in any given community and the ability to work. Along this dual axis the author locates virtually the entire history of social welfare in early-modern and contemporary Europe.This work is a systematic defense of the meaningfulness of the category of "the social," written in the tradition of Foucault, Durkheim, and Marx. Castel imaginatively builds on Durkheim's insight into the essentially social basis of work and welfare. Castel populates his sociological framework with vivid characterizations of the transient lives of the "disaffiliated": those colorful itinerants whose very existence proved such a threat to the social fabric of early-modern Europe. Not surprisingly, he discovers that the cruel and punitive measures often directed against these marginal figures are deeply implicated in the techniques and institutions of power and social control.The author also treats the flipside of the problem of social assistance: namely, matters of work and wage-labor. Castel brilliantly reveals how the seemingly objective line of demarcation between able-bodied beggarsthose who are capable of work but who chose not to do soand those who are truly disabled becomes stretched in modernity to make room for the category of the "working poor." It is the novel crisis posed by those masses of population who are unable to maintain themselves by their labor alone that most deeply challenges modern societies and forges recognizably modern policies of social assistance.The author's gloss on the social question also offers us valuable perspectives on contempo

Author : Glenn Drover,Patrick Kerans,Diana Hacker,David Williams,Richard Sebold
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1988-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349191550

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Welfare And Worker Participation by Glenn Drover,Patrick Kerans,Diana Hacker,David Williams,Richard Sebold Pdf

Author : Rik van Berkel,Dorte Caswell,Peter Kupka,Flemming Larsen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317439691

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Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe by Rik van Berkel,Dorte Caswell,Peter Kupka,Flemming Larsen Pdf

Welfare-to-work or activation policies refer to programmes aimed at promoting the employability, labour-market and social participation of benefit recipients of working age. Frontline workers delivering these policies are conceived of as policy implementers, as policy makers, and as actors mediating politics in an arena where conflicting interests are at stake. Frontline work plays a crucial role in determining what welfare-to-work practically means and how it affects the lives of the people it targets. Yet few books have deliberatively focused on comparing what happens when frontline workers, some of whom are professional social workers, meet clients. Pioneering the provision of scholarly reflections on both theoretical and policy relevance of studying frontline practices of delivering activation, internationally renowned researchers present the first comparative analysis of how activation policies are actually delivered by frontline staff in selected EU countries and in the United States. In trying to understand and interpret frontline practices in activation, each contribution provides insights into what ‘activation in practice’ looks like, what services are provided and how they are enacted. This involves examining processes of client selection, monitoring, sanctioning and motivating, as well as the role of external service providers. This book is an important acquisition for scholars and researchers of social policy, public administration, public management, social work and policy implementation.

Author : Jane E. Ferrie
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Employment (Economic theory)
ISBN : 9289013451

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Labour Market Changes and Job Insecurity by Jane E. Ferrie Pdf

This work is the result of a symposium focusing on the anxieties that arise from changes in the world of work in Europe. The book seeks to draw attention to the changing nature of work, trends in labour market policies and the increase in job insecurity, which creates chronic unemployment.

Author : Ursula Huws
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1786807084

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Reinventing the Welfare State by Ursula Huws Pdf

"The Covid-19 pandemic has tragically exposed how today's welfare state cannot properly protect its citizens. Despite the valiant efforts of public sector workers, from under-resourced hospitals to a shortage of housing and affordable social care, the pandemic has shown how decades of neglect has caused hundreds to die. In this bold new book, leading policy analyst Ursula Huws shows how we can create a welfare state that is fair, affordable, and offers security for all. Huws focuses on some of the key issues of our time - the gig economy, universal, free healthcare, and social care, to criticize the current state of welfare provision. Drawing on a lifetime of research on these topics, she clearly explains why we need to radically rethink how it could change. With positivity and rigor, she proposes new and original policy ideas, including critical discussions of Universal Basic Income and new legislation for universal workers' rights. She also outlines a 'digital welfare state' for the 21st century. This would involve a repurposing of online platform technologies under public control to modernize and expand public services, and improve accessibility."--Provided by publisher

Author : John Horejsi,Thomas Walz,Patrick R. Connolly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036949894

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Working in Welfare by John Horejsi,Thomas Walz,Patrick R. Connolly Pdf

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Industrial welfare
ISBN : UIUC:30112107359496

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Welfare Facilities for Workers by International Labour Office Pdf

Author : Gal, John,Weiss-Gal, Idit
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847429735

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Social Workers Affecting Social Policy by Gal, John,Weiss-Gal, Idit Pdf

Social Workers Affecting Social Policy is the first book to undertake a cross-national study of social worker engagement in social-policy formulation processes. At its core, it asks how social workers influence social policy in various national settings. It offers insights into social worker involvement in policy change, the social work discourse, and education in different countries. It will be of interest to social work practitioners, students, educators, and researchers, as well as to social-policy scholars.

Author : Robert H. Cox
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822976936

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The Development of the Dutch Welfare State by Robert H. Cox Pdf

The development of the Dutch welfare state in the Netherlands started later than in other Western European countries, but once it started, it grew at a spectacular rate. The development was so rapid that it catapulted the Dutch from being welfare laggards to being welfare leaders. Cox charts the course of this growth, from the nineteenth century to the present, placing the Dutch case within the larger theoretical discussion of welfare states. In so doing, Cox challenges the widely held assumption that welfare programs always represent the policies of the social democratic left. He demonstrates that it was not the left but the more centrist religious parties that built the Dutch welfare state in the 1960s. Even more curious is the fact that these same political forces had resisted the expansion of welfare programs throughout the first half of the twentieth century. In many ways, the Netherlands is a crucial test case for assumptions about the welfare state. Its system is one of the largest in the world, rivaling Sweden's as one that devotes the greatest share of public spending to social welfare. How does it compare to other countries? Do present theories of welfare state development fit the Dutch case? What can we learn from the experience of a small state? Cox makes a signal contribution in clarifying the historical record concerning a little-studied country and in advancing theoretical debate.

Author : Felix Behling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319652238

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Welfare Beyond the Welfare State by Felix Behling Pdf

This book examines employee welfare in British and German companies from the 19th century through to the present day. Tracing the history of employee welfare, this comparative study reveals new issues beyond the dominant focus on the welfare state, showing that companies are an integral part of welfare systems with surprisingly few differences between the UK and Germany. Maintaining that employee welfare is a key feature of the modern employment relationship, Behling shows how the welfare programme supported industrialisation in the 19th century by cementing the standard employment model of the Fifties and Sixties, as well as how it revolves around corporate social responsibility today. The result is an innovative exploration into the changing nature of employment relationships, contemporary welfare systems, and the co-evolutionary - rather than categorical - development of economic and political institutions. An engaging and well-researched text, this book will hold special appeal to scholars of social policy, welfare politics, as well as anyone interested in the role of the state in people’s working lives.