1st Edition
A New Social Question? On Minimum Income Protection in the Postindustrial Era
By Ive Marx
Copyright 2007
282 Pages
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Routledge
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... Read more
1. The Decline of Self-Reliance in Advanced Welfare States, 2. The Demand Shift against the Less-Skilled, 3. Low Pay and Poverty: Anatomy of a ‘New’ Social Risk, 4. On the Limits to Incrementalism in Income Protection Policy: The Case of Structural Unemployment in Belgium, 5. How Responsive Are Poverty Rates to Job Growth?, 6. Alternatives to Passive Income Support, Overall Conclusion, List of Tables and Figures, References, Index
Biography
Ive Marx is Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
