The Political Economy of the Irish Welfare State: Church, State and Capital

ISBN-13: 9781447332916 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 304 str.

Fred Powell

Opis

This book analyzes the changing shape of Irish society over the hundred years since the 1916 rising, arguing that there are distinctive master patterns that characterize its development of a welfare state that triangulates among church, state, and capital. Fred Powell charts the influence of social movements that resisted oppressive power structures, including the labor and feminist movements, organizations working for the rights of tenants and the homeless, survivors of institutional abuse, groups of asylum seekers and refugees, and activists for gay rights and minority and ethnic cultural rights. The tension between these groups and the more conservative institutions that have dominated Ireland raises major questions about whether an inclusive welfare state is possible in a quasi-religious society.

Spis treści

Introduction; Why the welfare state matters; Revolution, culture and society; Welfare in the Free State; Religious nationalism, sectarianism and anti-semitism; The welfare state debate; Poverty and social inequality; Liberty, gender and sexuality; The marketisation of the welfare state; Crisis, austerity and water; Conclusion.