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Rethinking European Welfare: Transformations of European Social Policy
Janet Fink (Ed.)
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Hardback. Provides a rethinking of the study of Europe and social policy and offers ways of analysing European welfare and its future. This book addresses a range of other challenging and provoking issues which have been marginalized or ignored in the study of European social policy. It for students of European social policy, social work, and politics. Editor(s): Fink, Janet; Lewis, Gail; Clarke, John H. Series: Published in Association with the Open University. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; JKSN; JPQB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590. "1Kg. Paperback. Fine clean copy, as new. Published in association with the Open University. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: Transitions and trajectories in European welfare / Gail Lewis, Janet Fink, and John Clarke -- PART ONE: UNSETTLING BOUNDARIES AND BORDERS: Introduction -- Re-shaping Europe: the challenge of new divisions within a homogenized political-economic space / Roy Hudson and Allan M. Williams -- Changing citizenship in Europe: remarks on postnational membership and the national state / Yasemin N. Soysal -- Europe's civilising mission / Phil Marfleet -- Migrant women and exclusion in Europe / Eleonore Kofman and Rosemary Sales -- Conclusion to Part One -- PART TWO: UNSETTING CATEGORIES AND METHODS: Introduction -- Gendering dimensions of welfare states / Diane Sainsbury -- Race/ethnicity, gender, and class in welfare states: a framework for comparative analysis / Fiona Williams -- Silence, absence and elision in analyses of 'the family'." Keywords: "Business, Finance & Law - Careers - Community Services,Subjects - Business, Finance & Law - Careers - Community Services,Subjects - History - General,Subjects - History"
`This is an important and timely book not least in considering the EU′s inchoate social regime alongside established national systems, that draws attentionto the subtle, yet often neglected, ways in which welfare systems unwittingly distort the lives of their beneficiaries′ - Political Studies
`This is an important and timely book not least in considering the EU′s inchoate social regime alongside established national systems, that draws attentionto the subtle, yet often neglected, ways in which welfare systems unwittingly distort the lives of their beneficiaries′ - Political Studies
Rethinking European Welfare provides a wide-ranging and innovative rethinking of the study of Europe and social policy and offers new ways of analysing European welfare and its future.
Whilst acknowledging the importance of research and analysis of policy making in Europe, this Reader addresses a range of other challenging and provoking issues which have been marginalized ... Read more
It will be essential reading for students of European social policy, social and public administration, social work, sociology, politics, cultural studies and European studies.
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Used, Like New
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Number of pages
312
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Series
Published in Association with The Open University
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Thousand Oaks, United States
ISBN
9780761972785
SKU
KEX0161114
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Reviews for Rethinking European Welfare: Transformations of European Social Policy
`This is an important and timely book not least in considering the EU′s inchoate social regime alongside established national systems, that draws attentionto the subtle, yet often neglected, ways in which welfare systems unwittingly distort the lives of their beneficiaries′ - Political Studies