A New Social Question?
Material type: TextSeries: Changing Welfare States ; 8Amsterdam University Press 2006Description: 1 online resource (288 pages)Content type:- text
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- On Minimum Income Protection in the Postindustrial Era
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Advanced welfare states are said to be facing, in the words of Pierre Rosanvallon, a New Social Question. The idea here, and it is a widely shared one, is that the transition from an industrial to a postindustrial environment has brought with it a whole new set of social risks, constraints and trade-offs which necessitate radical recalibration of social security systems. This book analyses in some depth how economic change has impacted on minimum income protection in advanced welfare states. There is a particular focus on how Bismarckian welfare states have fared over recent decades.
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