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Welfare Reform in East Asia: Towards Workfare book cover

1st Edition

Welfare Reform in East Asia Towards Workfare

Edited By Chak Kwan Chan, Kinglun Ngok Copyright 2011
188 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In many Western countries, social welfare payments are increasingly being made conditional on recipients doing voluntary work or attending job training courses, a system known as "welfare-to-work" or "workfare". Although social welfare in Asia is very different to the West, with much smaller social welfare budgets, a strong self-reliance and a much higher dependency on family networks to provide... Read more

List of tables and figures  List of abbreviations  Preface  About the contributors  Part I: Introduction  1. Understanding Workfare in Western and East Asian Welfare States - Chak Kwan Chan  Part II: Workfare in Seven East Asian Economies  2. Workfare in Mainland China: A Reaction to Welfare Dependency? - Kinglun Ngok, Wingkit Chan & Zhaiwen Peng  3. Workfare in Hong Kong - Joe C. B. Leung  4. From Workfare to Cash for All: The Politics of Welfare Reform in Macau - Alex H. Choi & Eva P.W. Hung  5. Workfare in Taiwan: From Social Assistance to Unemployment Absorber - Chin-fen Chang  6. Workfare in Japan - Shogo Takegawa  7. Workfare in South Korea: Delivering Unemployment Benefits in the Developmental Welfare State - Huck-ju Kwon & Jooha Lee  8. Workfare in Singapore - Irene Y.H. Ng  Part III: Conclusion  9. Workfare in East Asia: Development & Characteristics - Chak Kwan Chan

Biography

Chak Kwan Chan is Reader in Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Kinglun Ngok is Professor and Director of the Institute for Social Policy, Centre for Public Administration, School of Government at Sun Yat-sen University, China. They recently co-authored Social Policy in China: Development and Well-Being.

"This well-argued book will be a valuable contribution to the fields of social welfare and East Asia, and will be an informative read for students and scholars in those fields."

Aiqun Hu PhD
Arkansas State University - Journal of International and Global Studies

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