1st Edition

Social Welfare in Socialist Countries

Edited By John Dixon, David Macarov Copyright 1992
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1992, this book analyses social welfare in eight socialist countries, at that time: Czechoslovakia, China, Cuba, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, North Korea and the Soviet Union. For each country it considers the ideological framework underlying the social welfare system and describes the historical development of both the system and the political and socio-economic context. Each... Read more

Acknowledgements;  Preface;  Contributors;  Social Welfare under Socialism John Dixon and Hyung Shik Kim;  China John Dixon;  Cuba Carmelo Mesa-Lago and Segio G. Roca;  Czechoslovakia Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs;  Hungary Gabor Hegyesi, Anna Gondos and Eva Orsos;  North Korea Hyung Shik Kim;  Poland Ewa Les;  Soviet Union Aleksandra Wiktorow;  Yugoslavia Miroslav Ruzica;  Appendices;  Index

Biography

John Dixon, David Macarov