Welfare States

EU Citizenship and Social Rights

Edited by Frans Pennings, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

In the 1990s, the Maastricht Treaty introduced the right to free movement for EU citizens. In practice, however, there are substantial barriers to making use of this right, particularly to integration and to accessing the social and welf...

Hardback (2018)

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Empowering Young People in Disempowering Times

Edited by Hans-Uwe Otto, Valerie Egdell, Jean-Michel Bonvin, Roland Atzmüller

Following the 2008 economic crisis, the situation for young people deteriorated dramatically in many European countries. Employment and training opportunities have reduced, and levels of poverty and social exclusion have increased. This ...

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Social Services Disrupted

Edited by Flavia Martinelli, Anneli Anttonen, Margitta Mätzke

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This book revives the discussion on public social services and their redesign, with a focus ...

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Technology and the Future of Work

Bent Greve

Changes in the labour market demand new solutions to mitigate the potentially dramatic wiping away of jobs, and this important book offers both analysis and suggestions for change. Bent Greve provides a systematic and vigorous assessment...

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Transforming Gender and Family Relations

Åsa Lundqvist

This book is about how the activation of women into paid work was accomplished. It looks at the ideational grounds and the concrete measures that created the conditions for increasing the employment ratio of women, and thus also a farewe...

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Heat, Greed and Human Need

Ian Gough

This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for sust...

Paperback (2017)

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The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare

Edited by Wim van Oorschot, Femke Roosma, Bart Meuleman, Tim Reeskens

This book addresses new perspectives on the perceived popular deservingness of target groups of social services and benefits, offering new insights and analysis to this quickly developing field of welfare attitudes research. It provides ...

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The Generational Welfare Contract

Simon Birnbaum, Tommy Ferrarini, Kenneth Nelson, Joakim Palme

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This groundbreaking book brings together perspectives from political philosophy and comparat...

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Handbook of Welfare in China

Edited by Beatriz Carrillo , Johanna Hood, Paul Kadetz

The Handbook is a timely compilation dedicated to exploring a rare diversity of perspectives and content on the development, successes, reforms and challenges within China’s contemporary welfare system. It showcases an extensive introduc...

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Social Investment and Social Welfare

Edited by James Midgley, Espen Dahl, Amy Conley Wright

This book contributes to the growing literature on social investment by discussing the way social investment ideas have been adopted in different countries and in various academic and professional fields, including social policy, develop...

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Childcare, Early Education and Social Inequality

Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Nevena Kulic, Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi

Recognising that social change over recent decades has strengthened the need for early childhood education and care, this book seeks to answer what role this plays in creating and compensating for social inequalities in educational attai...

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