Welfare State Capitalst Society

by Ramesh Mishra

Overview

First published in 1991. The Welfare State in Capitalist Society, uses a methodological approach that draws extensively on comparative material. It presents an analysis of the fortunes of the modern welfare state in conditions of economic and ideological adversity is able to generate propositions of significance; sweeping masterfully over developments on three continents, it distilling a multiplicity of discrete domestic events into a coherent, comprehensible account.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745002118
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/1990
Series:	Studies in International Social Policy and Welfare
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ramesh Mishra York University, Ontario

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The end of post-war consensus: strategies of retrenchment and maintenance; Chapter 2 The New Right: retrenching the welfare state in Britain and the United States; Chapter 3 Social corporatism: defending the welfare state in Sweden and Austria; Chapter 4 Social policy and the new models: Canada and Australia; Chapter 5 The welfare state after the 'crisis';

Editorial Reviews

In this sequel to his textbook, The welfare state in crisis (1984), Mishra (social policy, York U., Toronto) focuses on the response of industrialized Western societies to the recent crisis in welfare at the level of policies and practices. He identifies the main contrasting approaches to social policy as neo-conservative (UK, US, Canada) and social-democratic-corporatist (Sweden, Austria, Australia), and compares and contrasts them in terms of class, crisis, ideology and policy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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