Welfare Books

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1. Rethinking the Welfare Rights Movement

   By Premilla Nadasen

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-80086-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Transnational Social Support

   Edited by Adrienne Chambon, Wolfgang Schröer, Cornelia Schweppe

   In the context of ever-increasing globalization, transnational systems of support have emerged in response to the needs of transnational families, labour forces, and the communities within which they are located. This volume will be the first to systematically address transnational support...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-88876-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Genetic Testing: Accounts of Autonomy, Responsibility and Blame

   By Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Srikant Sarangi, Angus Clarke

   Firmly grounded in empirical data, this book critically engages with the relational, moral and ethical issues surrounding genetic testing in contemporary society. Competing accounts of autonomy, responsibility and blame – by families, by professionals and in the public sphere – are analyzed...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-47443-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. The Government of Chronic Poverty: From the politics of exclusion to the politics of citizenship?

   Edited by Sam Hickey

   What are the underlying causes of chronic poverty? Can ‘development beyond neoliberalism’ offer the strategies required to challenge such persistent forms of poverty, particularly through efforts to promote citizenship amongst poor people? Drawing on case-study evidence from Africa, Latin America...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-59850-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Social Security in Contemporary Japan

   By Mari Osawa

   The present study analyzes the livelihood security system of contemporary Japan by way of historical and international comparison, in an effort to explore its current route and future prospects. The present study posits "livelihood security systems" rather than "welfare states" or "welfare regimes"...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-55940-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. The Social Construction of Life Course

   By Jason Powell

   This book provides a much-needed analysis of the baby boom generation, and looks at the changing attitudes to and policies in education, work and pensions/retirement. With the baby boom generation born in the 1950s now entering retirement and a third phase of social welfare interventions (...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-36388-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. The Political Economy of the European Social Model

   By Philip B. Whyman, Mark Baimbridge, Andrew Mullen

   This book seeks to analyse the development of the European Union (EU), which was founded upon the principle of the free movement of capital, goods, services and people in 1957. Its central thesis is that, from a practical and theoretical point of view, such a basis is fundamentally at odds with the...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-47629-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. China's Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives

   Edited by Beatriz Carrillo Garcia, Jane Duckett

   The aim of this book is to draw attention to two neglected areas in the growing body of research on welfare in China: subnational variation and the changing mix of state and non-state provision. The contributors to this volume highlight the local, or sub-national, variation that lies behind...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-59731-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Elements of an Evolutionary Theory of Welfare: Assessing Welfare When Preferences Change

   By Martin Binder

   It has always been an important task of economics to assess individual and social welfare. The traditional approach has assumed that the measuring rod for welfare is the satisfaction of the individual’s given and unchanging preferences, but recent work in behavioural economics has called this into...

   April 2010 | 978-0-415-56298-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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    Welfare's Forgotten Past: A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law

    By Lorie Charlesworth

    That ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Poor law was not...

    December 2009 | 978-0-415-47738-3 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)