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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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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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"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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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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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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Welfare state --- Social justice --- Welfare state --- Welfare state --- Welfare state
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