The advent of the enterprise culture over the last two decades, has drastically reshaped the welfare state of the 1950-60s. The authors address one of the most contentious issues to arise from these changes - how those with low-earning power should live in this post-industrial economy? Trapped in Poverty provides a detailed study of how men and women, with children, and in low-income households, decide about employment and claiming benefits. It shows how they account for their moves in and out of the labour market, relating such changes to various economic and social factors. It also...
The advent of the enterprise culture over the last two decades, has drastically reshaped the welfare state of the 1950-60s. The authors address one of...
The freedom to choose where to live and work is a fundamental right in liberal societies. The moral equality of persons is the basic principle of democratic politics. But liberal democracy has no coherent theory of boundaries, or how members should be selected for political communities. The global economy requires mobility across borders, but liberal democracy cannot reconcile the demands of footloose and rivalrous economic agents with the human needs of sedentary and vulnerable populations.
These are urgent issues for the new century, as the upsurge...
The freedom to choose where to live and work is a fundamental right in liberal societies. The moral equality of persons is the basic principle of demo...
Intimacy, choice, movement - these are the elements which make up the desirable lifestyle in the mainstream of affluent societies. They also undermine traditional forms of power and control. And they create a web of connections between individuals all over the world, which promises to be more flexible and less restrictive than any which have existed before.
Bill Jordan sets out to explain the particular attractions of this vision of freedom, equality and harmony. He traces its appeal to a formula for human institutions which emerged with the birth of...
Intimacy, choice, movement - these are the elements which make up the desirable lifestyle in the mainstream of affluent societies. They also undermine...
In the new century, governments face three challenges for their social policies. Their efforts to improve their citizens' well-being must be consistent with the development of the world economy, and should if possible enhance the situation of the poorest populations. Their systems for redistribution and public services must be rooted in a convincing version of their own domestic order. And they should be sustainable over time, doing justice to the needs of future generations.
This book shows how social policy can address these big issues, and how they relate to each other in an...
In the new century, governments face three challenges for their social policies. Their efforts to improve their citizens' well-being must be consisten...
In the new century, governments face three challenges for their social policies. Their efforts to improve their citizens' well-being must be consistent with the development of the world economy, and should if possible enhance the situation of the poorest populations. Their systems for redistribution and public services must be rooted in a convincing version of their own domestic order. And they should be sustainable over time, doing justice to the needs of future generations.
This book shows how social policy can address these big issues, and how they relate to each other in an...
In the new century, governments face three challenges for their social policies. Their efforts to improve their citizens' well-being must be consisten...
