UID:
almafu_9959236332002883
Format:
1 online resource (256 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
979-82-16-01852-0
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1-280-31500-8
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9780313010587
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9786610315000
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0-313-01058-7
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover -- THE STATE OF SOCIAL WELFARE -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Australia -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE AUSTRALIAN WELFARE STATE: A RICH WHITE COUNTRY, 1890-1910 -- Informal Help for the Poor -- Wage Regulation as Welfare Provision -- The First Welfare Programs -- HOW AND WHY SOCIAL POLICY HAS CHANGED OVER THE PAST 100 YEARS -- Unique Welfare Arrangements -- Failed Social Insurance Proposals -- The Beginnings of the Modern Welfare State -- Increasing Social Welfare Dependency -- Labor Market, Single Parents and Health Care Programs -- The Value-Free Welfare State -- Funding Retirement -- SOCIAL POLICY IN THE 1990s -- Programs for the Aged -- Privatizing Retirement Provision -- Programs for the Disabled People -- Programs for the Unemployed -- Programs for Single Parents -- Programs for Families -- EVALUATING THE WELFARE STATE -- A Comprehensive Safety Net? -- Means-Testing Problems -- Low Retirement Incomes -- Welfare Outlays as a Cause of Poor Economic Performance -- The Benefit System as a Cause of Increasing Dependency -- Problems with Immigration -- AGENDA FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- Will Privatizing Retirement Provision Succeed? -- Problems with Health Care -- Rewarding Work and Savings -- Globalization -- Political Support for the Means-Tested System -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 Brazil -- INTRODUCTION -- CONSTRUCTION AND EXPANSION OF THE BRAZILIAN WELFARE STATE -- THE STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BRAZILIAN WELFARE SYSTEM -- Social Security Provision -- Welfare Provision -- Health Care Provision -- Housing Provision -- THE CONSERVATIVE BRAZILIAN WELFARE STATE: OUTCOMES AND LIMITS -- REFORMING THE WELFARE STATE IN BRAZIL -- The 1980s: The Democratic Reform Agenda for Social Programs -- The 1990s: The New Social Reform Agenda.
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Economic Adjustment and Reforms: The Paradoxes of Neo-liberal Experimentation -- The Welfare System in the Context of Economic Adjustment and Institutional Reforms -- The New Strategy for Social Development -- The Axles of the Changes -- WELFARE STATE AND REFORMS: TOWARD A SET OF SOCIAL POLICIES FOR A NEW GENERATION? -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 Canada -- INTRODUCTION -- EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY CANADA IN CONTEXT -- The Political Context -- The Economic and Demographic Contexts -- The Social Contexts -- The Social Gospel Movement -- The Women's Movement -- Trade Unions -- Social Service Work -- Social Research, the Urban Reform Movement -- SOCIAL POLICIES AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- Prisons, Asylums and Hospitals -- Children's Legislation -- Labor -- Canada's Policies Regarding Aboriginal Peoples and Immigration -- THE EMERGENCE OF AN INSTITUTIONAL PERIOD OVER THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- THE EMERGENCE OF A POST-INSTITUTIONAL ETHOS IN THE 1990s -- MAJOR SOCIAL PROGRAMS IN CANADA -- Federal Government Programs -- Employment Insurance (EI 1994-) -- Canada Pension Plan/Quebec Pension Plan (CPP/QPP 1966-) -- Old Age Security (OAS 1952-) -- Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS 1967-) -- Spouse's Allowance (SPA 1976-) -- Seniors' Benefit (SB 2001-) -- Veterans' Pensions (VP 1919-) -- War Veterans Allowances (WVA 1930-) -- Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP 1998-) -- Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB 1998-) -- Health Care or "Medicare" -- Provincial Programs -- Day Care (Various Dates) -- Workers' Compensation (WC 1914-) -- Social Assistance (SA, Various Years) -- Provincial Top-Ups for the Elderly (Various Years) -- CONCLUSION: DIRECTIONS FOR TOMORROW -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 France -- INTRODUCTION -- SOCIAL PROTECTION IN THE 1890s -- SOCIAL POLICY BEFORE 1944 -- THE POST-WAR SETTLEMENT -- 1944-1974: LES TRENTES GLORIEUSES -- Family Policy.
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Social Exclusion -- Financial Control -- Decentralization -- Alternance Politique -- THE POLICY AGENDA FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- ACHIEVEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 Sweden -- INTRODUCTION -- NATION-STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN PRE-WELFARE STATE SWEDEN -- SWEDISH SOCIAL INSURANCE: FROM CIVIL SOCIETY TO A UNIVERSAL WELFARE STATE -- REFORMING WELFARE: 1930s UNTIL YESTERDAY -- UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE: THE DECENTRALIZED EXCEPTION -- A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE MATURE WELFARE SYSTEM -- CHANGES IN THE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE 1990S -- Active Labor Market Policy -- Tax Policy and the Fiscal Crisis of the Welfare State -- Pension Reform -- Work Injury Insurance -- Sickness Insurance -- Family Benefits -- Local Government Medical and Personal Social Services -- THE SWEDISH WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE 1990s: A SUMMARY OF TRENDS -- THE CHALLENGES: AMERICAN PRIVATIZATION AND EUROPEAN DECENTRALIZATION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 The United Kingdom -- INTRODUCTION -- SOCIAL POLICY AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- THE COMING OF THE WELFARE STATE, ACT I: NEW LIBERALISM AND THE LIBERAL REFORMS -- The Welfare State: 1914-1939 -- THE COMING OF THE WELFARE STATE, ACT II: THE WAR, BEVERIDGE AND THE ATTLEE REFORMS -- TOWARD A WELFARE CONSENSUS? -- THE CHALLENGE FROM THE NEW RIGHT -- THE IMPACT OF STATE WELFARE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A PROVISIONAL ASSESSMENT -- The Welfare State and the Economy -- The Welfare State and Individual Well-Being -- The Welfare State and Equality -- The Welfare State and Citizenship -- WHICH WAY NEXT? NEW LABOR'S THIRD WAY AND THE WELFARE STATE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 The United States -- INTRODUCTION -- SOCIAL WELFARE IN THE 1890s: THE PROGRESSIVE ERA -- CHILDREN, MOTHERS AND THE RISE OF MATERNALIST SOCIAL POLICY -- THE EXPANSION OF INCOME SECURITY FOR INDUSTRIAL WORKERS -- THE CHANGING SOCIAL POLICY MILIEU: ROOSEVELT TO REAGAN.
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SOCIAL POLICY AND THE GREAT SOCIETY: THE 1960s -- THE REAGAN COUNTERREVOLUTION: THE 1980s -- THE 1990s: CLINTON AND BEYOND -- THE STATE AND SOCIAL POLICY: FROM THE 1890s TO THE 1990s -- THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL POLICY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 Zimbabwe -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- Pre-Independence Era: 1900-1979 -- Personal Social Services -- Social Security: Public Assistance -- Social Security: Old Age Pension -- Social Security: Workmen's Compensation -- Post-Independence Era: 1980-1999 -- Personal Social Services -- Social Security: Social Assistance for the Vulnerable -- Social Security: Social Insurance -- Social Development Fund -- AN EVALUATION -- CONCLUSION: SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY AGENDA FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 Social Welfare in Transition: 1900 and 2000 -- INTRODUCTION -- ECONOMICALLY DEVELOPED COUNTRIES -- The 1890s: The Precursors -- Residual Social Welfare -- Voluntary, Religious and Private Provision -- Local Government Administration -- Personal and Family Responsibility -- Transition to the Welfare State: 1900-1945 -- The Welfare State's Golden Years: 1945-1975 -- The Welfare State in Transition: 1975-2000 -- Welfare Dependency -- Expenditure Retrenchment -- Devolution of Public Responsibility -- Privatization -- Social Welfare in the Twenty-First Century: The Agenda -- Residual Social Welfare -- Voluntary, Religious and Private Provision -- Local Government Administration -- Personal and Family Responsibility -- DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- The State Welfare Provision: 1930-1980 -- Social Reform in the 1980s -- Retrenchment in the 1990s -- Social Welfare in the Twenty-First Century: The Agenda -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCE -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-275-96795-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9798216018520
