Citizenship and Welfare State Reform in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780415189279 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 208 str.

Jet Bussemaker

Opis

This work examines the concept of citizenship in relation to social policy, in the context of the rapidly changing European welfare states. Leading academics analyze concrete changes in social rights and citizenship roles, and offer theoretical investigations of citizenship and the welfare state. Issues discussed include: citizenship versus residence as a basis for social rights; the relationship between rights and obligations; workers' rights and non-workers' rights; exclusion and inclusion in the labour market and community life; the relationship between social and political citizenship; poverty and social exclusion; and new roles for citizens as clients, consumers and participants in the welfare state.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures, List of Contributors, Series Editor’s Preface, Introduction: the challenges of citizenship in late twentieth-century societies, 1 1 Discourses on citizenship: the challenge to contemporary citizenship, 2 Against social solidarity and citizenship: justifying social provision in Britain and France, 3 From work to citizenship? Current transformations in the French welfare state, 4 Workfare, citizenship and social exclusion, 5 Citizenship and changes in life-courses in post-industrial welfare states, 6 Towards a gender-sensitive framework for citizenship: comparing, 7 The heterogeneity of Spanish social citizenship ,8 Profiles of citizenship: elaboration of a framework for empirical analyses, 9 Citizen (re)orientations in the welfare state: from public to private citizens?, 10 Citizenship and the struggle against social exclusion in the context of welfare state reform, 11 European social rights towards national welfare states: additional, substitute, illusory?, Index

O autorze

Jet Bussemaker