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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.

Welfare state

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Public welfare

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La famille, construction historique et sociale, est loin de n'être qu'une affaire privée. Elle est traversée d'injonctions que les dispositifs de l'Aide sociale à l'enfance (ASE) et de la Protection Judiciaire de la Jeunesse (PJJ) permettent de révéler. L'enquête qualitative réalisée dans un département francilien analyse des données issues de dossiers administratifs archivés et d'entretiens auprès de parents et de professionnels. Les données recueillies soulignent que les dispositifs sont les révélateurs des attentes sociales vis-à-vis des familles et donc des normes de parentalité à l'œuvre dans la société française contemporaine. L'ouvrage montre qu'il existe un écart entre la prescription institutionnelle (lisible dans les dossiers) et sa réception par les usagers, qui peuvent faire l'expérience de la sollicitation, de l'observance ou de l'opposition.

Child welfare.

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"Trois spécialistes analysent le système français de protection sociale, en le situant dans la moyenne durée (depuis 1975) et en le comparant à ceux de ses voisins européens. Ce système est confrontè à des dèfis, engendrés notamment par les tendances sociodémographiques, la flexibilisation des marchés du travail et la libéralisation financière. Mais, loin de répondre mécaniquement à des facteurs extérieurs en partie communs aux économies riches, les évolutions du système français sont bien le produit d'une succession de décisions politiques. Le système a traversé la crise de 2008 et il connaît aujourd'hui encoure crise majeure déclenchée par la pandémie de la Covid-19. Pour penser les changements survenus depuis cinquante ans dans le système français, il faut tenir compte de son caractère hybride: l'universalisme de la protection y est paradoxalement recherché au travers de programmes fragmentés dont la Sécurité sociale reste la pierre angulaire. L'avenir de la protection sociale en France ouvert, mais son caractère national est tout autant sinon plus, affirmé qu'il a vingt ans"--

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With growing concern from consumers and regulatory agencies about the welfare of farmed animals such as pigs, the livestock sector must assess how animal welfare can be improved whilst ensuring livestock production remains economically and environmentally sustainable. Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of pigs is a comprehensive review of key research in this important area. This collection reviews genetic and developmental factors affecting pig behaviour and current welfare issues at different production stages, as well as specific issues such as tail biting and castration. The book concludes with an assessment of ways to measure welfare, including techniques to monitor pig behaviour. With its distinguished editor and international team of expert authors, Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of pigs will be a standard text for university researchers in pig/swine and veterinary science as well as ethology. It will also be a key reference for government and other agencies involved in regulating and monitoring farm animal welfare, as well as farmers and companies involved in pig production.

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