Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
• Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term strate... Lees meer

Mapping Welfare Attitudes in East Asia

Trude Sundberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
• East Asian societies and welfare systems are rapidly changing, creating an increasing need for research that can help to establish sustainable and leg... Lees meer

Varieties of Precarity

Sophia Seung-Yoon Lee

• Hardcover | Engels | Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
• Despite recent achievements in the South Korean economy and development within welfare institutions, new forms of precarious work continue to prevail.... Lees meer

Welfare, Populism and Welfare Chauvinism

Bent Greve

• Hardcover | Engels | Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
• In the wake of the financial crisis, and with increasing numbers of people in precarious and low paid jobs, there has been a surprising surge of suppo... Lees meer

Dualisation of Part-Time Work

• Hardcover | Engels | Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
• ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book brings together leading international authors from a number of fields to prov... Lees meer

Emerging Trends in Social Policy from the South

• Hardcover | Engels | Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
• Drawing on international case studies from emerging economies and developing countries including South Africa, India, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia,... Lees meer

Local Policies and the European Social Fund

Katharina Zimmermann

• Hardcover | Engels | Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
• This book reviews how local social and employment policy fields react to the European Social Fund (ESF) to determine the role of the ESF in local acti... Lees meer

Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New Zealand

Greg Marston, Louise Humpage, Michelle Peterie, Philip Mendes, Shelley Bielefeld, Zoe Staines

• Hardcover | Engels | Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
• More than a decade on from their conception, this book reflects on the consequences of income management policies in Australia and New Zealand. Drawin... Lees meer

The Moral Economy of Activation

Magnus Paulsen Hansen

• Hardcover | Engels | Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
• Activation policies which promote and enforce labour market participation continue to proliferate in Europe and constitute the reform blueprint from c... Lees meer

Women, Welfare and Productivism in East Asia and Europe

Ruby C M Chau, Sam W K Yu

• Hardcover | Engels | Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
• Developing the new framework of 'life-mix', which considers the mixed patterns of caring and working in different periods of life, this book systemati... Lees meer