The Nordic model of welfare
Subtitle: a historical reappraisal
By: edited by Niels Finn Christiansen ... [et al.]
Contributors: Christiansen, Niels Finn.
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Copenhagen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Social service -- Scandinavia -- History; Welfare state -- Scandinavia -- History; Scandinavia -- Social policy -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-427).
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Niels Finn Christiansen & Pirjo Markkola; title: The power of international comparison : a perspective on the making and challenging of the Nordic welfare state / Pauli Kettunen; title: Constructing Nordic welfare? Nordic social political cooperation 1919-1955 / Klaus Petersen; title: Limited universalism : unemployment insurance in Northern Europe 1900-2000 / Nils Edling; title: Old age pensions in the Nordic countries, 1880-2000 / Klaus Petersen & Klas Åmark; title: Milk mothers and marriage : family policy formation in Norway and its neighbouring countries in the twentieth century / Inger Elisabeth Haavet; title: The hospital sector : a four-country comparison of organisational and political development / Per Haave; title: Welfare, health and the working class woman in early 20th century Finland / Riitta Oittinen; title: A leap in the dark : from a large actor to a large area approach : the Joint Committee of the Nordic Social Democractic Labour Movement and the crisis of the Nordic model / Urban Lundberg; title: Women's labour force participation in the Nordic countries during the twentieth century / Klas Åmark; title: Conclusions : Niels Finn Christiansen & Klas Åmark; title: Appendix: Data on population and politics in the Nordic countries / compiled by Nils Edling.