Why We Need a New Welfare State

Leading scholars in the field examine the highly topical issue of the future of the welfare state in Europe. They argue that welfare states need to adjust and examine which kind of welfare architecture will further Europe's stated goal of maximum social inclusion and justice. The volume concentrates on four principal social policy domains; the aged and transition to retirement; the welfare issues related to profound changes in working life; the risks and needs that arise in households and, especially, in child families; and the challenges of creating gender equality. The volume aims to promote a better understanding of the key welfare issues that will have to be faced in the coming decades. It also warns against the all-too-frequent recourse to patent policy solutions that have all to often characterized debate. It intends to move the policy debate from its often frustrating vague and generic level towards greater specificity and nuance.

ISBN 0199256438   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780199256433 (What's this?)   Pages 274 Publisher Oxford University Press   Volumes 1 Imprint Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 450 Format Paperback   Published in Oxford Publication date 22 Aug 2002   Height (mm) 234 Non-book description xxvi, 244 p. ;   Width (mm) 156 Writer of foreword Frank Vandenbrucke   Spine width (mm) 15 Library of Congress 2002066250   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 361.65

		Foreword by Frank Vandenbroucke
		Preface and Acknowledgements
		Notes on Contributors
		List of Abbreviations
1		Towards the Good Society, Once Again? by Gosta Esping-Andersen		1
2		A Child-Centred Social Investment Strategy by Gosta Esping-Andersen		26
3		A New Gender Contract by Gosta Esping-Andersen		68
4		The Quality of Working Life in Welfare Strategy by Duncan Gallie		96
5		A New Social Contract for the Elderly? by John Myles		130
6		The Self-Transformation of the European Social Model(s) by Anton Hemerijck		173
		References		215
		Index		233

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