The Twentieth-century Welfare State

The Twentieth-century Welfare State
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Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105024898632
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Synopsis The Twentieth-century Welfare State by : David Gladstone

The welfare state has been one of the most significant developments in 20th-century Britain. Drawing on recent research, this volume narrates its principal changes and provides a thematic historical introduction.

The Welfare State

The Welfare State
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : 9780199672660
ISBN-13 : 0199672660
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis The Welfare State by : David Garland

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

The Welfare State Revisited
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 9780231546164
ISBN-13 : 0231546165
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Welfare State Revisited by : José Antonio Ocampo

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.

Reinventing the Welfare State

Reinventing the Welfare State
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1786807084
ISBN-13 : 9781786807083
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Reinventing the Welfare State by : Ursula Huws

"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

Medicine in the Twentieth Century

Medicine in the Twentieth Century
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 778
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ISBN-10 : 9789057024795
ISBN-13 : 9057024799
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Medicine in the Twentieth Century by : Roger Cooter

This book contains over forty authoritiative essays, focusing on the political economy of medicine and health, understandings of the body and transformations of some of the theatres of medicine.

Development, Democracy, and Welfare States

Development, Democracy, and Welfare States
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 508
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ISBN-10 : 0691135967
ISBN-13 : 9780691135960
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Development, Democracy, and Welfare States by : Stephan Haggard

Comparing the welfare states of Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe, the authors trace the origins of social policy in these regions to political changes in the mid-20th century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization.

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 908
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ISBN-10 : 9780191628283
ISBN-13 : 019162828X
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State by : Francis G. Castles

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The book is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state 's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalisation. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state. The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development.

Reforming the Welfare State

Reforming the Welfare State
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 9780226261911
ISBN-13 : 0226261913
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Reforming the Welfare State by : Richard B. Freeman

Over the course of the twentieth century, Sweden carried out one of the most ambitious experiments by a capitalist market economy in developing a large and active welfare state. Sweden's generous social programs and the economic equality they fostered became an example for other countries to emulate. Of late, Sweden has also been much discussed as a model of how to deal with financial and economic crisis, due to the country's recovery from a banking crisis in the mid-1990s. At that time economists heatedly debated whether the welfare state caused Sweden's crisis and should be reformed—a debate with clear parallels to current concerns over capitalism. Bringing together leading economists, Reforming the Welfare State examines Sweden's policies in response to the mid-1990s crisis and the implications for the subsequent recovery. Among the issues investigated are the way changes in the labor market, tax and benefit policies, local government policy, industrial structure, and international trade affected Sweden's recovery. The way that Sweden addressed its economic challenges provides valuable insight into the viability of large welfare states, and more broadly, into the way modern economies deal with crisis.

The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State

The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 9781789201253
ISBN-13 : 178920125X
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State by : Nils Edling

In discussions of economics, governance, and society in the Nordic countries, “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical concept. However, there has been much less scholarly energy devoted to historicizing this idea beyond its postwar emergence. In this volume, specialists from Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland chronicle the historical trajectory of “the welfare state,” tracing the variable ways in which it has been interpreted, valued, and challenged over time. Each case study generates valuable historical insights into not only the history of Northern Europe, but also the welfare state itself as both a phenomenon and a concept.

Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State

Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 500
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ISBN-10 : 0521558344
ISBN-13 : 9780521558341
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State by : Susan Pedersen

A comparative analysis of social policies in Britain and France between 1914 and 1945.