Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Between growth and security; 2 A productive investment: social policy in the strong society; 3 The social cost of growth; 4 Social policy for security; 5 The cost of security; 6 Can we afford security? Social policy in the third way; 7 Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
Summary
The notion of social policy as a productive investment and a prerequisite for economic growth became a core feature in the ideology of Swedish social democracy, and a central component of the universalism of the Swedish welfare state. However as the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) embarked on its Third Way in 1981, this outlook on social policy as a productive investment was replaced by the identification of social policy as a cost and a burden for growth. This book discusses the components of this ideological turnaround from Swedish social democracy?s post-war notion of a strong society
