The welfare state :  a reader / 
edited by Christopher Pierson and Francis G. Castles. 
 - Malden, Mass. :  Polity Press,  2002. 
 - xi, 403 p. ;  24cm. +  hbk. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99036410 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Welfare state.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>330.126