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PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited

ISBN-10140390166X

ISBN-139781403901668

eBay Product ID (ePID)15038713594

Product Key Features

Number of PagesXii, 290 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameGlobalization and Welfare : a Critical Reader

Publication Year2007

SubjectInternational Relations / Trade & Tariffs, Globalization, International Relations / General, Public Policy / Social Policy, Public Policy / Economic Policy

FeaturesRevised

TypeTextbook

AuthorRitu Vij

Subject AreaPolitical Science

SeriesInternational Political Economy Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight13.5 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2006-050188

Reviews'With a genuinely insightful introduction, Ritu Vij has brought together a classic set of readings ... A judicious and radical collection which is likely to become a standard reference point for anyone interested in the state of welfare and the welfare state under conditions of contemporary globalization.' - Professor Anthony McGrew, Head of School, School of Social Sciences, Southampton University, UK 'The book is an important statement about what has happened to the welfare state throughout the last generation of politically-inspired globalization.' - Craig N. Murphy, M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations, Wellesley College, USA '...this collection facilitates a productive engagement with critical perspectives on social protection and suggests avenues for the future development of critical scholarship on globalization and welfare.' - International Social Security Review

Dewey Edition22

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal361.6/5

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Introduction PART I: CITIZENSHIP AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE The Erosion of Citizenship; B.S.Turner The Sustainability of Welfare: States into the Twenty-First Century; G.Esping-Andersen Social Politics and Policy in an Era of Globalization: Critical Reflections; N.Yeates PART II: REGULATING GLOBAL CAPITAL Some Contradictions of the Welfare State; C.Offe The Normalizing Role of Rationalist Assumptions in the Institutional Embedding of Neoliberalism; C.Hay The Transition to Post-Fordism and the Schumpeterian Workfare State; B.Jessop Welfare State Limits to Globalization; E.Rieger & S.Leibfried Which Third Way?; T.Brennan PART III: RE-POLITICIZING THE RETREAT OF THE STATE The New Politics of the Welfare State; P.Pierson Shrinking States? Globalization and National Autonomy in the OECD; G.Garrett Eras of Power; F.Fox Piven & R.A.Cloward Subject to Suspicion: Feminism and Anti-Statism in Britain; L.Segal PART IV: GOVERNMENTALITY AND THE MICRO-POLITICS OF WELFARE REFORM The Death of the Social? Re-Figuring the Territory of Government ; N.Rose Governing the Unemployed Self in an Active Society; M.Dean Compliant Subjects for a New World Order: Globalization and the Behaviour Modification Regime of Welfare Reform; S.F.Schram Political Economies of Scale: Fast Policy, Interscalar Relations, and Neoliberal Workfare; J.Peck REFERENCES

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisThe rollback of the welfare state in advanced industrial democracies is often justified as the inevitable consequence of economic globalization. This reader provides a collection of inter-disciplinary essays by sixteen leading scholars in the field that rebuke the 'inevitability thesis' on welfare state restructuration., It has almost become a truism that it is due to the forces of globalization that the welfare state has been restructured at the national level. Furthermore, this restructuring has rendered Keynes' original vision of the Keynesian welfare state almost unrecognizable. This book explores the varying fortunes in the privatization of welfare and the dismantling of welfare states across the world, based on critical understandings of neoliberal globalization.

LC Classification NumberJZ1252