Age in the Welfare State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Age in the Welfare State write by Julia Lynch. This book was released on 2006-06-05. Age in the Welfare State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book asks why some countries devote the lion's share of their social policy resources to the elderly, while others have a more balanced repertoire of social spending. Far from being the outcome of demands for welfare spending by powerful age-based groups in society, the 'age' of welfare is an unintended consequence of the way that social programs are set up. The way that politicians use welfare state spending to compete for votes, along either programmatic or particularistic lines, locks these early institutional choices into place. So while society is changing - aging, divorcing, moving in and out of the labor force over the life course in new ways - social policies do not evolve to catch up. The result, in occupational welfare states like Italy, the United States, and Japan, is social spending that favors the elderly and leaves working-aged adults and children largely to fend for themselves.
Old Age in the Welfare State
Old Age in the Welfare State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Age in the Welfare State write by John Myles. This book was released on 1989. Old Age in the Welfare State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Transformation of Old Age Security
The Transformation of Old Age Security - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Transformation of Old Age Security write by Jill Quadagno. This book was released on 1988-02-18. The Transformation of Old Age Security available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why did the United States lag behind Germany, Britain, and Sweden in adopting a national plan for the elderly? When the Social Security Act was finally enacted in 1935, why did it depend on a class-based double standard? Why is old age welfare in the United States still less comprehensive than its European counterparts? In this sophisticated analytical chronicle of one hundred years of American welfare history, Jill Quadagno explores the curious birth of old age assistance in the United States. Grounded in historical research and informed by social science theory, the study reveals how public assistance grew from colonial-era poor laws, locally financed and administered, into a massive federal bureaucracy.
Old Age and the Welfare State
Old Age and the Welfare State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Age and the Welfare State write by Anne Marie Guillemard. This book was released on 1983. Old Age and the Welfare State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The modern welfare state is above all a welfare state for the elderly. An overwhelming proportion of its services and benefits go to them. The current crisis of the welfare state is also, therefore, a crisis of policy concerned with the aged. The essays in this volume examine not only interventions by governments on behalf of the old, but the very basis and history of the welfare state itself. From a variety of perspectives ranging from structural functionalism to neomarxism, they examine old age policy in six advanced industrial nations -- the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, West Germany, and France. The essays in Part One deal with the process of making public policy on old age and changes in it during the current economic crisis. Contributions in the second part examine the impact of existing policies on older people. The focus of the essays on social, economic, and political aspects amounts to a new approach in gerontology that has been called by some the political economy of ageing. This book is unique in providing research on the relationship between old age policy and the larger class structure, economy, and state apparatus of more than one country. It will become a classic in the field, and an example of how sociology can be relevant to deal with our current social and economic crisis.' -- "Manuel Castells, University of California at Berkeley"
Aging and the Welfare-state Crisis
Aging and the Welfare-state Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aging and the Welfare-state Crisis write by Anne Marie Guillemard. This book was released on 2000. Aging and the Welfare-state Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book brings an innovative conceptual framework of analysis that can be transferred to other areas of social politics or public policies at large."--BOOK JACKET.
