Why we need a new welfare state
By: Gøsta Esping-Andersen with Duncan Gallie ... [et al.]
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Welfare state
Description: "Leading scholars examine the highly topical issue of the future of the welfare state. They argue that welfare states need to adjust, and examine which kinds of welfare architecture will further Europe's stated goal of maximum social inclusion and justice. Why we need a New Welfare State concentrates on four principal social policy domains; the aged and transition to retirement; the welfare issues related to profound changed in working life; the new risks and needs that arise in households and, especially, in families with children; and the challenges of creating gender equality. The volume aims to promote a better understanding of the key welfare issues that will have to be faced in the coming decades. It also warns against the recourse to patent policy solutions which all too often characterizes contemporary debate, It intends to move the policy debate from its often frustratingly vague and generic level towards greater specificity and nuance."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-232) and index
Table of contents: title: Towards the good society, once again? / Gøsta Esping-Andersen; title: A child-centered social investment strategy / Gøsta Esping-Andersen; title: A new gender contract / Gøsta Esping-Andersen; title: The quality of working life in welfare strategy / Duncan Gallie; title: A new social contract for the elderly? / John Myles; title: The self-transformation of the European social model(s) / Anton Hemerijck