The State of Welfare

Comparative Studies of the Welfare State at the End of the Long Boom, 1965–1980

Erik Eklund, Melanie Oppenheimer, Joanne Scott (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2017 | New edition
Peter Lang Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78707-103-2 (ISBN)

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The period after 1945 saw a rapid growth in social welfare, with the state taking on increasing responsibility for pensions, health care, unemployment relief and income support. In Western democracies economic growth underpinned state investment and was reinforced by demands from the new social movements of the 1960s. Just as the clamour for reformism reached a crescendo in the late 1960s, the global economy began to falter, culminating in the oil crisis of 1973–1974.
This volume explores the factors that shaped the trajectories of welfare state change over this crucial period. A close analysis of countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom reveals signs of a broader shift towards the decline of government spending and the first tentative moves towards a nascent neoliberalism. Other countries, such as Sweden and West Germany, remained comparatively untouched by the economic crisis and even sought to reinforce their welfare state in response to it. Ireland and Northern Ireland also showed little evidence of these changes, isolated as they were by complex political and religious factors. This book brings together a range of case studies at both country and provincial level in order to build up a more complex and nuanced picture of the welfare state in the 1960s and 1970s.

CONTENTS: Erik Eklund/Melanie Oppenheimer/Joanne Scott: The Welfare State at the End of the Long Boom, 1965–1980: Themes and Issues – Hugh Pemberton: UK Pensions: The Making and Breaking of a Welfare Consensus – Stuart C. Aveyard: «Soup kitchens disguised as factories»? Employment Policy and the Irrelevance of Neoliberalism in Northern Ireland – Fiona Dukelow: «Some sort of super welfare state»? The «Rediscovery» of Poverty and Irish Welfare State Change in the 1970s – Joanne Scott/Melanie Oppenheimer/Erik Eklund: A «program of such potential»: The Australian Assistance Plan – Linda Bryder: «Money in itself does not equate with welfare»: Ideas around the Welfare State in 1970s New Zealand and Their Consequences – Alvin Finkel: Social Policy in Canada, 1965–1980: Why First Reform and then Neoliberalism Were Constrained – Nicole Kramer: Like a Solid Rock? Forces of Continuity and Silent Mutations within the Federal Republic of Germany’s Welfare State Development – Stephan Köppe: Sweden: What Crisis? Welfare State Expansion during the Oil Crisis – Pat Thane: The Welfare State at the End of the Long Boom: Summary, Synthesis and Further Thoughts on the British Model

Erscheinungsdatum	31.10.2017
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Witney
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 225 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Boom • Comparative • economic rationalism • Eklund • History • Long • long boom • Neo-liberalism • Oil crisis • postwar boom • Social Movements • Social Welfare • State • Studies • welfare • Welfare State
ISBN-10	1-78707-103-0 / 1787071030
ISBN-13	978-1-78707-103-2 / 9781787071032
Zustand	Neuware