The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State (Mounk Yascha)(Paperback)

The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State (Mounk Yascha)(Paperback)

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceResponsibility--which once meant the moral duty to help and support others--has come to be equated with an obligation to be self-sufficient. This has guided recent reforms of the welfare state, making key entitlements conditional on good behavior. Drawing

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State (Castles Francis G.)(Paperback)

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the

The Welfare State in Europe: Economic and Social Perspectives (Pestieau Pierre)(Paperback)

Although in Europe there continues to be a large degree of consensus that it is the responsibility of government to ensure that nobody who is poor, sick, disabled, unemployed, or old is left deprived, there are mounting calls to roll back spending on the welfare state. It is argued that it fails to

The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction (Garland David)(Paperback)

Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies have welfare states of one kind or another - they are a fundamental dimension of modern government

House Gun (Gordimer Nadine)(Paperback)

With the scaffolding of a courtroom drama and the moral underpinnings of the state's responsibility, the novel infuses an isolated crime of passion with the atmospheric pressure of a country reeling from its own past. --The Boston Sunday Globe A house gun, like a house cat: a fact of ordinary daily

The Welfare State Reader (Pierson Christopher)(Paperback)

The Welfare State Reader has established itself as a vital source of outstanding original research since its original appearance in 2000. In the third edition, Pierson, Castles and Naumann have comprehensively overhauled the content, bringing it wholly up to date with contemporary discussions about

Disabled State (Stone Deborah)(Paperback)

A book about the defining assumptions and assumed definition of the welfare state. It argues that 'the concept of disability is fundamentally the result of political conflict about distributive criteria and the appropriate recipients of social

Economics of the Welfare State (Barr Nicholas)(Paperback)

The sixth edition of this successful textbook discusses elements of the welfare system, including cash benefits, the health service and education. The text argues that the welfare state does not exist just to help the underprivileged, but also offers efficiencies in areas where the private markets

Bread for All - The Origins of the Welfare State (Renwick Chris)(Paperback / softback)

Five Giants - A Biography of the Welfare State (Timmins Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

An accessible and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State - now fully revised to cover Blair's first term. Lively writing in the style of Peter Hennessy. 'Giant Want. Giant Disease. Giant Ignorance. Giant Squalor. And the

The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age (Jonas Hans)(Paperback)

Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies (Huws Ursula)(Paperback)

The Covid-19 pandemic has tragically exposed how today's welfare state cannot properly protect its citizens. Despite the valiant efforts of public sector workers, from under-resourced hospitals to a shortage of housing and affordable social care, the pandemic has tragically shown how decades of

Five Giants [New Edition] - A Biography of the Welfare State (Timmins Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

NEW EDITION FOR THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEVERIDGE REPORT The classic and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State - now fully revised to cover New Labour and Cameron's

Intelligent Kindness: Rehabilitating the Welfare State (Ballatt John)(Paperback)

At a time of renewed concern about health, social care, and national unity, the authors reassert the value of the Welfare State for society as a whole, not simply for those in need. Years of relentless regulatory and structural reforms have not prevented scandals, yet have exhausted, demoralised

Privatising Capital: The Commodification of Poland's Welfare State (Rychard Andrzej)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines Poland's public sector and welfare state. These are historically rooted in economic and social structures and amount to a form of public capital. There is an ongoing attempt to financialise and commodify this public capital. This includes areas such as health, education and

Reproductive Health: Women and Men's Shared Responsibility: Women and Men's Shared Responsibility (Anderson Barbara)(Paperback)

Addresses the shared responsibility of women, men, and the community in promotion of reproductive healthComprehensively addresses human rights, ethics, social justice, and the issues of both men and women as sexual beings and parentsCovers a

Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century (Phillips Jim)(Paperback)

Examining working class welfare in the age of deindustrialisation through the experiences of the Scottish coal miner Throughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book argues that coal miners

Computer Ethics and Professional Responsibility (Rogerson Simon)(Paperback)

This clear and accessible textbookand its associated website offer a state of the art introduction to the burgeoning field of computer ethics and professional responsibility. Includes discussion of hot topics such as the history of computing; the social context of computing; methods of ethical

Leviathan on a Leash: A Theory of State Responsibility (Fleming Sean)(Pevná vazba)

New perspectives on the role of collective responsibility in modern politics States are commonly blamed for wars, called on to apologize, held liable for debts and reparations, bound by treaties, and punished with sanctions. But what does it mean to hold a state responsible as opposed to a

Latin America: A New Developmental Welfare State in the Making? (Riesco Manuel)(Paperback)

The 21st century Latin American developmental welfare state model is based on a new public-private alliance, where state-led developmental social policy relies for its implementation mainly on proactive, emerging regional entrepreneurs and a growing middle class. This volume illustrates where

Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Esping-Andersen Gosta)(Paperback / softback)

1. Esping--Andersen is a leading authority on the welfare state.2. Offers a completely new theoretical framework for understanding the contemporary welfare state and employment structures.3. Offers a new methodology for the comparative analysis of state and social

Visible Hands: Government Regulation and International Business Responsibility (Knudsen Jette Steen)(Pevná vazba)

A growing number of states are regulating the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of domestic multinational corporations relating to overseas subsidiaries and suppliers. In this book, Jette Steen Knudsen and Jeremy Moon offer a new framework for analysing government-CSR relations: direct and

Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism (Fuchs Christian)(Paperback)

The 'end of history' has not taken place. Ideological and economic crisis and the status quo of neoliberal capitalism since 2008 demand a renewed engagement with Marx. But if we are to effectively resist capitalism we must truly understand Marx: Marxism today must theorise how communication

Humanistic Contributions for Psychology 101: Growth, Choice, and Responsibility (Bargdill Richard)(Paperback)

Humanistic Contributions to Psychology 101 is the first of its kind: a supplemental text cataloging the major contributions of humanistic psychology often not included in general psychology courses or textbooks. The book mirrors a standard Introduction to Psychology textbook with chapters covering