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Book Towards a Post Fordist Welfare State

Download or read book Towards a Post Fordist Welfare State written by Roger Burrows and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no doubt that significant socio-economic changes have occurred over the last twenty years in the UK and other advanced capitalist societies. Consequently, Fordism, a bureaucratic, hierarchical model of industrial development has matured into Post-Fordism, with its greater emphasis on the individual, freedom of choice and flexibility, generating fresh debate and analysis. Towards a Post-Fordist Welfare State represents leading authors from a number of disciplines - social policy, sociology, politics and geography - who have played a key role in promoting and criticising Post-Fordist theorising and presents a thorough examination of the implications of applying Post-Fordism to contemporary restructuring of the British welfare state. The work will appeal to a wide-ranging readership providing the first social policy text on Post-Fordism. It will be key reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and lecturers in social policy and administration, sociology, politics and public sector economics

Book The State of Welfare

Download or read book The State of Welfare written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Repackaging the Welfare State

Download or read book Repackaging the Welfare State written by Pranab Chatterjee and published by N A S W Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the welfare state is unquestionably one of the noblest accomplishments of the 20th century, certain steps must be taken for its continued survival, including market participation and population planning. This path-breaking analysis of the welfare state examines the fundamental conflict existing in every modern industrial state between efforts to optimise efficiency and equality. Earlier studies of the welfare state relying on various single social science perspectives, led to disciplinary tunnel vision. This study corrects this myopia by offering an interdisciplinary approach to conceptualising a welfare state that balances a civil society, which provides caregiving to the vulnerable, with wealth-building activities.

Book Community Provision in a Post fordist Welfare State

Download or read book Community Provision in a Post fordist Welfare State written by R. P. Pritchard and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Politics  Regulation and the Modern Welfare State

Download or read book Politics Regulation and the Modern Welfare State written by J. Torfing and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-02-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an alternative theoretical approach to the study of the transformation of the modern welfare state. It draws upon the undogmatic Marxism of Gramsci in order to deconstruct the Marxist tradition and develop a general theory of capitalist regulation which emphasizes the primacy of the political. In so doing, it seeks to integrate French regulation theory and British state theory within the broader framework of discourse analysis. This theoretical framework is applied in an empirical analysis of the Danish variant of the Scandinavian welfare state model. The book is written for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals within the field of political theory, institutional economics and sociology.

Book Post Fordism and Social Form

Download or read book Post Fordism and Social Form written by Werner Bonefeld and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-11-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection brings together proponents and critiques of the post- Fordist thesis. The debate focuses on the relation between crisis and societal as well as political restructuring. The collection provides an introduction to, and a critique of, the post-Fordist debate. The articles represent the fields of political economy, state theory, value theory, Marxist philosophy, and general questions of Marxist methodology. The volume includes, alongside the original debate between Werner Bonefeld, Bob Jessop and John Holloway, hitherto unpublished material by a wide range of authors.

Book Gender  Welfare State and the Market

Download or read book Gender Welfare State and the Market written by Thomas Boje and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the present state of theoretical debate in welfare state scholarship, drawing on research from western Europe, North America and Japan. It therefore provides a valuable balance of breadth and detail from the broad international overview to comparisons between specific welfare states and national case studies.

Book Worlds of Welfare

Download or read book Worlds of Welfare written by Steven Pinch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World of Welfare demonstrates how a geographical perspective is crucial to understanding the diversity of welfare reform and explores the future of the welfare state in multicultural societies.

Book Theorising Welfare

Download or read book Theorising Welfare written by Martin O′Brien and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-03-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′ Theorising Welfare is very well written and painstakingly clear. It is an accessible and original textbook on the welfare state and the idea of welfare. There is nothing available like it in terms of its scope and intellectual sweep′ - Scott Lash, University of Lancaster There are many interpretations of welfare and welfare states, each providing insights into different aspects of welfare and pointing to different possibilities for its future. Theorising Welfare provides a guide to these debates through an examination of seven theoretical perspectives - liberalism, Marxism, neo-liberalism, post-structuralism, political economy, political ecology and postmodernism - situating them within their historical and political contexts.

Book The Transformation of Welfare States

Download or read book The Transformation of Welfare States written by Nick Ellison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Globalization', institutions and welfare regimes -- The challenge of globalization -- Globalization and welfare regime change -- Towards workfare? : changing labour market policies -- Labour market policies in social democratic and continental regimes -- Population ageing, GEPs and changing pensions systems -- Pensions policies in continental and social regimes -- Conclusion : welfare regimes in a liberalizing world.

Book Postmodern Welfare

Download or read book Postmodern Welfare written by Peter Leonard and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-07-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Postmodern Welfare' places postmodernism firmly on the agenda of contemporary debates about the welfare state. It is the first book to explain systematically the significance of postmodernism for understanding social welfare.

Book The Politics of Flexibility

Download or read book The Politics of Flexibility written by Bob Jessop and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents both theoretical and empirical studies of the current reorganization of economic, political and social relations in Britain, West Germany and Scandinavia. The arguments are illustrated with case studies.

Book Gender in the Post Fordist Urban

Download or read book Gender in the Post Fordist Urban written by Marguerite van den Berg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the gender revolution in urban planning and public policy. Building on feminist urban studies, it introduces the concept of genderfication as a means of understanding the consequences of post-Fordist gender notions for the city. It traces the changes in western urban gender relations, arguing that in the post-Fordist urban landscape gender is used for urban planning and public policy – both to rebrand a city’s image and to produce space for gender-equal ideals, often at the cost of precarious urban populations. This is a topic that remains largely unexplored in critical urban studies and radical geography. Chapters cover how Jane Jacobs’ perspectives provide an alternative to the patriarchal modernist city for contemporary planners and using Rotterdam as a case study Van Den Berg discusses why new urban planning methods focus on attracting women and children as new urbanites. Topics include: forms of place marketing, gender as a repertoire for contemporary urban Imagineering and the concept of urban re-generation. The final chapter investigates how cities aiming to redefine themselves imagine future populations and how they design social policies that explicitly and particularly target women as mothers. Scholars in all fields of urban studies will find this work thought-provoking, instructive and informative.

Book The Managerial State

Download or read book The Managerial State written by John Clarke and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-05-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original analysis of the creation of new state forms critically examines the political forces that enabled `more and better management' to be presented as a solution to the problems of the welfare state in Britain. Examining the micro-politics within public service, the authors draw links between politics, policies and organizational power to present an incisive and dynamic account of the restructuring of social welfare. Clarke and Newman expose the tensions and contradictions in the managerial state and trace the emergence of new dilemmas in the provision of public services. They show that these problems are connected to the recurring difficulties in defining `the public' that receives these services. In partic

Book Post Fordism and Social Form

Download or read book Post Fordism and Social Form written by Werner Bonefeld and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-11-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection brings together proponents and critiques of the post- Fordist thesis. The debate focuses on the relation between crisis and societal as well as political restructuring. The collection provides an introduction to, and a critique of, the post-Fordist debate. The articles represent the fields of political economy, state theory, value theory, Marxist philosophy, and general questions of Marxist methodology. The volume includes, alongside the original debate between Werner Bonefeld, Bob Jessop and John Holloway, hitherto unpublished material by a wide range of authors.

Book Post Fordism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ash Amin
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2011-07-20
  • ISBN : 1444399136
  • Pages : 469 pages

Download or read book Post Fordism written by Ash Amin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part analysis of contemporary change and part vision of the future, post-Fordism lends its name to a set of challenging, essential and controversial debates over the nature of capitalism's newest age. This book provides a superb introduction to these debates and their far-reaching implications, and includes key texts by post-Fordism's major theorists and commentators.

Book Towards a New Economic Order

Download or read book Towards a New Economic Order written by Alain Lipietz and published by Polity. This book was released on 1993-01-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards a New Economic Order is a concise and critical introduction to what has become known as "regulation theory" in political economics. It makes a major contribution to the study of the political economy of Europe.