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Bryson Lois

Welfare and the state: Who benefits - London Macmillan 1992 - 270p - Sociology for a Changing World .

0-333-48826-1


Public welfare.
Social security.
Welfare state.
Sociological context : Crisis of welfare state, market oriented direction, political tussle over the welfare state, global context, sociological definitions of welfare, limits of sociological approaches- gender and race
Conventional welfare discourses- their relevance in 1990s : Duality of discourse, conventional approaches to defining key terms- social welfare, social policy, social wage, welfare state, normative political classifications of welfare discourses classifying perspectives, individualist/ anti collective discourses, social reformist perspectives, political economic perspectives, feminist perspectives, anti-racist perspectives, residual v/s institutional welfare, absolute v/s relative poverty, selective v/s universal provision, horizontal v/s vertical equity, welfare and citizenship
Cross national trends in welfare state development : Broad national approaches to welfare, British welfare state- from poor laws to new rights, Australian experience- wage earners, welfare states, USA- traditional laggard, Japan- welfare state or welfare society, Nordic countries
Distribution of state welfare : Who benefits from social welfare, health and other services, housing, education, beneficiaries from occupational welfare, private pensions, fiscal welfare, levying taxation, progressivity in tax system, tax exemptions/ expenditure, tax allowances for dependents, deductibility of gifts to charitable organizations
Men's welfare state : Liberal theory and patriarchal welfare state, men and social welfare, family wage, male workers and usurpation of advantage, men and state power, corporatism and citizenship, welfare and role of state
Women's welfare state : Economic position of women, women's role from legitimate dependence to proletarianization, education and training, women and employment, child care, women and caring, equity policies
Welfare state in twenty first century

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