France in Crisis: Welfare, Inequality, and Globalization Since 1980

ISBN-13: 9780521844147 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 310 str.

Timothy B. Smith

Opis

Timothy Smith argues that the French economic and social model is imploding on itself despite good intentions. Bad policies and vested interests that exploit the rhetoric of "solidarity" and the specter of globalization have prevented necessary changes from being effected. Making frequent comparisons with the U.S., U.K., Canada, Scandinavia, Germany and the Netherlands, Smith argues that change need not follow the inegalitarian U.S. or British paths in order to lead to a more balanced French society.

Recenzje

'… a forthright and challenging intervention. … it performs one vitally important task: it highlights the absence of a genuine counter-programme to those offered by neoliberal apologists - and challenges the Left to devise one as a matter of urgency.' New Left Review

Spis treści

Preface; 1. The misunderstood French welfare state; 2. Corporatist welfare states: the residue of the past, or the wave of the future?; 3. The 'treason of the intellectuals': globalization as the big excuse for France's economic and social problems; 4. France's break with socialism; 5. Persisting inequalities; 6. The protected people; 7. The excluded: immigrants, youth, women; 8. The French exception; Index.