Welfare States and the Future
Title | Welfare States and the Future PDF eBook |
Author | B. Vivekanandan |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2005-01-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0230554911 |
This volume presents a thought provoking analysis of key welfare state issues engaging policy makers across the globe. It provides a unique and comprehensive evaluation of the state of welfare states- developed and developing. It maps the diversity of welfare regimes across the world and brings to fore the particularities and nuances that characterise them. The book also focuses on the on-going reforms and makes a powerful case for the increased relevance of the welfare state in a globalizing era.
Social Welfare in France
Title | Social Welfare in France PDF eBook |
Author | France. Direction de la documentation |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1004 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | France |
ISBN |
Social security and welfare in France - includes population data, social services, cooperatives, friendly societies, social work, health services, housing, family policy, maternity, children and student welfare, juvenile delinquency, working conditions, self employed and rural workers, collective bargaining, workers participation, leisure, aid to handicapped (disabled person) and older people, survivors benefits, social services, social workers, cost and financing of welfare.
Origins of the French Welfare State
Title | Origins of the French Welfare State PDF eBook |
Author | Paul V. Dutton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2002-05-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1139432966 |
This is the first comprehensive analysis of public and private welfare in France available in English, or French, which offers a deeply-researched explanation of how France's welfare state came to be and why the French are so attached to it. The author argues that France simultaneously pursued two different paths toward universal social protection. Family welfare embraced an industrial model in which class distinctions and employer control predominated. By contrast, protection against the risks of illness, disability, maternity, and old age followed a mutual aid model of welfare. The book examines a remarkably broad cast of actors that includes workers' unions, employers, mutual leaders, the parliamentary elite, haut fonctionnaires, doctors, pronatalists, women's organizations - both social Catholic and feminist - and diverse peasant organisations. It also traces foreign influences on French social reform, particularly from Germany's former territories in Alsace-Lorraine and Britain's Beveridge Plan.
Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940
Title | Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940 PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Beresford Smith |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780773524095 |
In this work, Timothy Smith argues that although post-World War II politicians have attempted to take credit for the creation of the welfare state, the social reform movement in France actually grew out of World War I. Smith shows that French social spending before World War II was well above the European average and demonstrates that the present welfare state is based on a structure that already existed but was expanded and consolidated with great political fanfare during the 1940s. Smith shows that France's most important social legislation to date - providing medical insurance, maternity benefits, modest pensions, and disability benefits to millions of people - was passed in 1928 (and amended and put into practice in 1930). This law covered over 50 per cent of the population by 1940. Few other nations could have claimed this sort of social insurance success. As well, by 1937 the centuries-old public assistance residency requirements had been transferred from the local to the departmental (regional) level. France's success in introducing important social reforms may require us to rethink the common view of interwar France as a time of utter political, economic and social failure.
Social Welfare in France
Title | Social Welfare in France PDF eBook |
Author | M. Pierre Laroque |
Publisher | |
Pages | 984 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | France |
ISBN |
Social Welfare in France
Title | Social Welfare in France PDF eBook |
Author | France. Documentation (Direction) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Social Laboratory for Modern France
Title | A Social Laboratory for Modern France PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Regina Horne |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2002-01-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822327929 |
DIVDocuments the early days of the French welfare state through the Musée Social, an early think tank./div