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Who Cares? : Life on Welfare in Australia.
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ISBN: 9780522878967 Year: 2023 Publisher: Melbourne : Melbourne University Publishing,

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The twentieth-century Australian welfare state made the bold promise to care for its citizens. But since the 1990s, social security has become increasingly conditional and punitive in its provision of this so-called care. Who Cares? outlines the perspectives of people affected by two recent welfare measures, offering an urgent account of the implications of these reforms. Eve Vincent has interviewed people who were impacted by the controversial cashless debit card, which limited discretionary spending, as well as those looking after small children who are compulsory participants in the program ParentsNext. Vincent challenges the very category of 'welfare recipient', which defines people exclusively by their relationship to paid work. And she asks who bears the burden of looking after vulnerable people once the welfare state's duty of care is displaced by surveillance and punishment? Who Cares? offers a new and deeply humane account of life on welfare today.


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Towards a new Welfare State : WRR-lecture 2005

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While the welfare states of rich democracies are widely discussed, at the same time they appear to be doing well. Some take it that in the decades to come they will go on doing so, adapting to new challenges, while others hold that things will shortly change in dramatic ways. The two contributions in this book reflect these different positions.

The welfare state East and West
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ISBN: 1280439394 1423758307 0195365011 1601295979 9781423758303 9781601295972 9781280439391 9786610439393 6610439397 0195039564 9780195039566 9780195365016 Year: 1986 Publisher: New York, New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press,

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A unique comparative examination of the different ways in which modern democratic societies provide welfare today, with special attention to the US, Japan, Britain, Scandinavia, West Germany, and Israel.

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The dynamics of welfare markets : private pensions and domestic/care services in Europe
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ISBN: 3030566234 3030566226 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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"This is an important, innovative, intelligent book about how welfare markets are made and remade in the EU. Integrating insights from sociological theories of markets and marketization, the books analytical framework emphasizes the actions of non-state actors consumers, employers, firms and workers in welfare market dynamics. This framework, together with the books methodologically diverse and empirically rich case studies, offers a strong foundation and clear agenda for future research on welfare marketization, wherever it happens." Gabrielle Meagher, Macquarie University, Australia This volume represents the beginning of a 'cross pollination' of different social scientific disciplines, bridging the boundaries between national and disciplinary epistemic communities in the worlds of European welfare markets. It maps the common ground and uncovers new research directions for the future study of actors, policies and institutions shaping the growth and dynamics of European welfare markets. The book defines welfare markets as politically shaped, regulated and state supported markets that provide social goods and services through the competitive activities of non-state actors. The chapters focus on what happens after states have initiated welfare markets, with equal weight given to the analysis of the agency of state actors and non-state actors in the contraction, stabilisation, and disruption of welfare markets. By focusing the analysis on two cases of welfare markets, private pensions and home-based domestic/care work, the contributions explore and compare the dynamics of different types of markets. The research will be of use to sociologists and scholars of social policy interested in the social dimension of welfare markets, political scientists and political economists, as well as diverse epistemic communities across the social sciences.

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Aide au conditionnel : La contrepartie dans les mesures envers les personnes sans emploi en Europe et en Amérique du Nord
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Year: 2003 Publisher: Montréal : Presses de l'Université de Montréal,

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Les politiques de soutien qui visent les sans-emploi sont de plus en plus souvent assorties de conditions que l'on regroupe sous le terme de contrepartie. Ces politiques dites « actives » font appel à la responsabilité des personnes et imposent des conditions plus ou moins contraignantes. Parallèlement, l'aide tend à devenir moins généreuse. Ce livre étudie la transformation de ces politiques dans six pays : le Canada, les États-Unis, le Royaume-Uni, la France, l'Allemagne et le Danemark. Cette étude comparative transversale fait ressortir les relations entre les sans-emploi et l'État, le marché du travail et l'environnement social. La contrepartie témoigne de la transformation de l'action sociale des États. La situation varie beaucoup d'un pays à l'autre, et ces différences sont révélatrices de tendances plus larges à l'oeuvre dans les politiques sociales. On trouve d'un côté des pays qui organisent le traitement des sans-emploi sous un mode plutôt collectif et de l'autre, des pays où l'individu et la sanction du marché constituent la référence première. Par ailleurs, si l'intervention de l'État passe de plus en plus par un soutien aux familles, celui-ci varie beaucoup au point d'apparaître comme la dimension la plus discriminante des nouvelles politiques sociales. Ce livre propose une analyse systématique des logiques d'intervention qui façonnent ces nouvelles formes de protection sociale. Il s'adresse non seulement aux chercheurs, mais aussi aux professionnels qui interviennent auprès des personnes sans emploi et aux décideurs.

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Forming Nation, Framing Welfare
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Year: 1998 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Taylor & Francis,

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This book introduces a historical perspective on the emergence and development of social welfare. Starting from the familiar ground of 'the family', it traces some of the crucial historical roots and desires that fed the development of social policy in the 19th and 20th centuries around education, the family, unemployment and nationhood. By aiming to discover the link between past and present, it shows that social problems are socially constructed in specific contexts and that there are diverse and competing ways of telling history.

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Le désengagement de l'État providence
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Year: 2003 Publisher: Montréal, Que. : Presses de l'Université de Montréal,

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Plusieurs raisons militent en faveur d'une étude du processus de désengagement de l'État dans le domaine de la protection sociale. Certains voudront mieux connaître les fondements et l'organisation du filet de sécurité sociale au Canada. D'autres voudront savoir aussi en quoi a consisté sa restructuration profonde à partir de 1975. D'autres, enfin, s'intéresseront au processus de désengagement en tant que tel ou encore aux stratégies politiques que le gouvernement fédéral a mises en place pendant une vingtaine d'années pour restructurer la sécurité du revenu au moindre coût politique possible. Cet ouvrage poursuit trois grands objectifs. D'abord, il vise à analyser le processus et les formes de désengagement du gouvernement canadien dans le domaine de la sécurité du revenu entre 1975 et 1995. Pour ce faire, il examine les changements qui se sont produits dans quatre grands programmes fédéraux : pensions de vieillesse, assurance-chômage, Régime d'assistance publique du Canada et prestations financières pour enfants. Ensuite, il compare les approches et stratégies que le gouvernement fédéral a poursuivies au cours de cette période pour se désengager de certaines obligations financières envers les citoyens. Enfin, il établit des distinctions importantes entre les facteurs associés à l'expansion de l'État providence canadien (1950 à 1974) et ceux associés au désengagement (depuis 1975).

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Reinventing the welfare state : digital platforms and public policies
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ISBN: 1786807092 Year: 2020 Publisher: London : Pluto Press,

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Life cycle risks and the politics of the welfare state
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ISBN: 8771849998 Year: 2019 Publisher: Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press,

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Life Cycle Risks and the Politics of the Welfare State' presents the dual risk model of the welfare state. Previous research in the field has predominantly studied the role of modernization and the associated labor market risks; this book gives equal weight to a different class of social risks, namely those related to the life cycle. Labor market and life cycle risks each have profound, but distinct consequences for the political process of the welfare state, including public opinion formation, party competition, and public policy-making. The dual risk model helps us to understand why some social programs are prioritized over others in terms of political attention and public spending - and how this prioritization leads to mounting economic inequalities in modern-day societies.

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The welfare of nations
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Washington, [District of Columbia] : Cato Institute,

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Welfare states have spread across the globe, transforming modern civilization. But the take-over is often going badly. In Marseilles, armed drug gangs dominate the social housing estates. In America, an outstandingly wealthy country, 45 million people are dependent on food stamps. In Britain, the NHS has one of the worst records for cancer care in the advanced world. Many countries are collecting more than ever in taxes but managing to get deeper into debt because of their burgeoning welfare states. All around the world, culture is being damaged by welfare state dependency while governments become more and more like Big Brother, telling us what we must do. The twentieth century experienced an epochal war between capitalism and communism. Bartholomew argues that, out of the ashes of that conflict, the real winner has been neither communism nor capitalism. It has been welfare statism—the new, defining form of government of our age that has swept across the advanced world. Without any revolution or great theorist, welfare states are changing the nature of modern civilization. But in what ways? And what lessons can be learned before it is too late? James Bartholomew traveled around the world seeing how cultures and lives are being changed—seeing what is going wrong but also looking for countries where they are making better policy decisions. His book is an unparalleled investigation in which he tells the story of the people and places he visited. He takes the reader on a journey, which includes burnt-out cars in France, a tough-minded benefits office in Singapore and innovative hospitals in Spain.

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