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Author Schaffner-Goldberg, Gertrude

Title Diminishing Welfare : a Cross-National Study of Social Provision
Published Westport : Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (400 pages)
Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Diminishing Welfare -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Three Stages of Welfare Capitalism Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg -- Chapter 2 More than Reluctant: The United States of America Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg -- Chapter 3 Downloading the Welfare State, Canadian Style Patricia M. Evans -- Chapter 4 Sweden: Temporary Detour or New Directions? Helen Lachs Ginsburg and Marguerite G. Rosenthal -- Chapter 5 Diminishing Welfare: The Case of the United Kingdom Jane Millar -- Chapter 6 The Triple Exceptionalism of the French Welfare State Mark Kesselman
Chapter 7 The Dismantling of Welfare in Germany Gerhard BaÂ? cker and Ute KlammerChapter 8 Diminishing Welfare: The Italian Case Enrica Morlicchio, Enrico Pugliese, and Elena Spinelli -- Chapter 9 Hungary: Retrenchment amid Radical Restructuring Phineas Baxandall -- Chapter 10 Is the Japanese- Style Welfare Society Sustainable? Masami Nomura and Kimiko Kimoto -- Chapter 11 Diminishing Welfare: Convergence toward a Liberal Model? Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg -- Bibliographical Essay Marguerite G. Rosenthal -- Index -- About the Contributors
Summary Annotation In the 1980s and 1990s, social welfare programs had been cut back, and full employment policies had been abandoned in a number of countries. Indeed, the phrase "dismantling the welfare state" has been used to describe this trend. Well-recognized social welfare scholars and social scientists scrutinize the nature, extent, and consequences of changes in social welfare programs and labor markets in nine industrialized countries
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Subject Public welfare -- Cross-cultural studies
Welfare state -- Cross-cultural studies
Social policy -- Cross-cultural studies
Public welfare.
Social policy.
Welfare state.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Form Electronic book
Author Rosenthal, Marguerite G
ISBN 9780313074356
0313074356
142947534X
9781429475341