European Welfare States and Globalization
Subtitle: Strategies in an Era of Economic Restructuring
Publisher: Elgar Publishing Limited, Edward
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781789905557
Subjects: Welfare state; Globalization; Europe, social conditions
Description: This timely book assesses how Europe's welfare states have dealt with the challenges of globalization and the financial crisis. It asks whether the European Union has adopted a general strategy for dealing with four major threats to the sustainable development of European societies: the employability of a growing number of redundant workers, an ageing population, low birth rates and the persistent problem of gender inequality.0The book will be an important read for social policy scholars, particularly those focusing on European welfare states, how they differ and lessons to be learnt from them. It also highlights key lessons from a broad range of case studies to help policy-makers in understanding how and where improvements may be made in the future.