The welfare state : a reader / edited by Christopher Pierson and Francis G. Castles.
Contributor(s): Pierson, Christopher | Castles, Francis Geoffrey.
Material type: BookPublisher: Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2002Description: xi, 403 p. ; 24cm. + hbk.Subject(s): Welfare stateDDC classification: 330.126Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 330.126 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00092290 | ||
General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 330.126 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00092288 |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Editors' introduction -- I: Approaches to welfare -- 'Classical' -- Perspectives on the left -- Responses from the right -- Feminism -- II: Debates and issues -- Welfare regimes -- A European welfare state? -- Competitiveness and globalization: Economic challenges to the welfare state -- Demographic and social change -- Political challenges to the welfare state -- III: The futures of welfare.