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Author: Jepsen, Maria
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2006-07-12
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781861347985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the outcome of a project coordinated by the European Trade Union Institute in which experts from different countries and social scientific disciplines (sociology, political science and economics) were invited to reflect on both the meaning and political status of the concept of the European Social Model (ESM).
Author: David G. Mayes
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2013-12-27
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 178254657X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the standard of living has increased, aspirations and financial constraints have required major rethinking. There is considerable disparity between European countries in how they approach the welfare system, with differing concern over aspects such
Author: Bryan Fanning
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-01-18
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1847795048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last decade Ireland’s immigrant population grew to more than one in ten. Now in the midst of an economic crisis the integration of immigrants has become a topical issue. Drawing extensively on demographic data and research on immigrant lives, immigrant participation in Irish politics and the experiences of immigrants living in deprived communities, this book offers a thorough study of the immigrant experience in Ireland today. Well-researched chapters and case studies examine the effects of immigration on social cohesion, the role of social policy, the nature and extent of segregation in education, racism and discrimination in the labour market, and the barriers faced by immigrants seeking Irish citizenship. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of immigration in Ireland and will appeal more broadly to those studying politics, sociology, geography and social policy.
Author: Michel Peillon
Publisher: Institute of Public Administration
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781904541066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David G. Mayes
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work analyzes exclusion, a pressing social problem. It discusses what can be achieved by European countries working together and pooling experiences, showing that not only is social exclusion ill-defined, but that there are many differing concepts of social exclusion across Europe.
Author: Colin C. Williams
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0415169607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book challenges many of the popular myths surrounding informal economic activities, offering a radical reconceptualisation of their extent, growth, location and nature as well as evaluating the contrasting policy options.
Author: Lødemel, Ivar
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2001-01-24
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1847425240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last decade, developed welfare states have witnessed a pendulum swing away from unconditional entitlement to social assistance, towards greater emphasis on obligations and conditions tied to the receipt of financial aid. Through administrative reforms, conditions of entitlement have been narrowed. With the introduction of compulsory work for recipients the contract between the state and uninsured unemployed people is changing. The product of research funded by the European Union, this book compares 'work-for-welfare' - or workfare - programmes objectively for the first time. It considers well publicised schemes from the United States alongside more overlooked examples of workfare programmes from six European countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark and Britain. It is the first time that details of workfare programmes have been collated in such an easily accessible format. 'An offer you can't refuse' provides an analysis of the ideological debates that surround compulsory work programmes and gives a detailed overview of the programmes implemented in each country, including their political and policy contexts and the forces that have combined to facilitate their implementation. Similarities and differences between programmes are explored. Explanations for differences and lessons for policy makers are discussed.
Author: Guy Standing
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2005-03-01
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 085728732X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about an idea that has a long and distinguished pedigree, the idea of a right to a basic income. This means having a modest income guaranteed – a right without conditions, just as every citizen should have the right to clean water, fresh air and a good education.
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 442
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Colin C Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-08-29
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1134517750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is poverty and how can it be tackled? Taking the Third Way out of its narrow party political context, this book argues that it is necessary to harness work beyond employment in order to pave a Third Way beyond capitalism and socialism. The outcome is a thought-provoking new approach towards combating poverty. Poverty and the Third Way uncovers how New Labour's employment-focussed approach causes, rather than resolves, poverty. Searching for another approach, the authors find the seeds of an alternative 'Third Way' in radical European social democratic and ecological thought which seeks to transcend capitalism and socialism by developing work beyond employment. Exploring the reasons why such an approach is needed and how it can be implemented, the authors transcend the 'there is no alternative' to capitalism school of thought dominant in many advanced economies by providing a clearly marked route map of the way towards a post-capitalist economy.
