Welfare policy from below : struggles against social exclusion in Europe / edited by Heinz Steinert, Arno Pilgram.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steinert, Heinz.

Pilgram, Arno.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social--Europe.

Marginality, Social.

Europe.

Public welfare--Europe.

Public welfare.

Europe--Social policy.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

vii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]

Contents:

Introduction: The Cultures of Welfare and Exclusion / Heinz Steinert 1

Part 1 The Project Framework

1 Limits of Market Society: European Perspectives / Ian Taylor 13

2 Inclusion, Exclusion: Towards a Dynamic Approach / Georg Vobruba 25

3 Social Exclusion: Strategies for Coping with and Avoiding it / Heinz Steinert 33

Part 2 Conceptual and Theoretical Matters

4 Participation and Social Exclusion: A Conceptual Framework / Heinz Steinert 45

5 Towards Understanding Situations of Social Exclusion / Bridgette Wessels, Siep Miedema 61

Part 3 The Presentation of Social Exclusion: Forms and Norms

6 Coping with Social Exclusion: From Acceptance to Indignation / Tomke Bohnisch, Helga Cremer-Schafer 77

7 Normalization, Symptoms and Reductions of Complexity: Unsatisfactory Accounts on Unsatisfactory Living / Gerhard Hanak 91

Part 4 Coping and Its Resources: The Welfare-Work-Family Mix

8 Welfare or What? Conditions for Coping within Different Sociopolitical Structures: The Examples of Sweden and Spain / Anita Ronneling, Angela Gabas i Gasa 111

9 Resources, Coping and Subjective Experiences / Monia Giovannetti, Fabio Quassoli 123

10 The Meaning of Work and Experiences of Disqualification / Helga Cremer-Schafer 135

11 Subsistence / Henrik Tham 149

12 (Ab)using the Family / Tomke Bohnisch, Angela Gabas i Gasa, Monia Giovannetti, Fabio Quassoli 161

Part 5 Coping and Its Resources: The Usefulness and Widespread Absence of Community

13 Community, Subculture, Secondary Association as a Resource: Patterns of Association to Counter Exclusion and Configured Networks to Manage Exclusion / Bridgette Wessels 175

14 Innovative Coping Strategies and Social Resource Structures / Siep Miedema, Janine Janssen 187

15 'On the spot' Experiences and Perceptions of Social Exclusion: Comparing Local Communities and Urban Settings / Gerhard Hanak 201

Part 6 The Market and the Law: Limits of Coping

16 Infrastructure Gaps: Housing Problems in Bologna and Frankfurt / Fabio Quassoli, Tomke Bohnisch 217

17 Legal Exclusion and Social Exclusion: 'Legal' and 'Illegal' Migrants / Inge Karazman-Morawetz, Anita Ronneling 229

18 Double Difficulty: Female and Foreigner / Bridgette Wessels, Janine Janssen, Siep Miedema 241

Part 7 Conclusions and Policy Implications

19 Welfare Policies as Resource Management / Christa Pelikan, Arno Pilgram, Heinz Steinert, Georg Vobruba 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-282) and index.

ISBN:

0754630633

OCLC:

50292334