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Reinventing social security worldwide : back to essentials / Vladimir Rys.
Lippincott Library HD7091 .R97 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rys, Vladimir.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social security.
- Physical Description:
- x, 126 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol ; Portland, OR : Policy Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Social security evolution in a global perspective: what is at stake?
- 1 A brief history of social security 9
- Institutional predecessors of social insurance 9
- The coming of social insurance 13
- The road to social security 17
- The beginning of retrenchment 19
- 2 Essential issues of social protection in our society 25
- Social security in a globalised world: the changing environment 25
- The changing content of social security and limits of income redistribution 27
- The global economic trap of human rights 31
- The problem of the integration of social and economic policies 32
- Social security and communism 35
- Social security and neoliberalism 39
- Social security and solidarity 46
- Social security and democracy 48
- 3 The new approaches to securing human existence in society 53
- The road to social insecurity 53
- Towards new approaches in industrialised countries 55
- Social security and the developing world 57
- Part 2 Understanding social security in its societal environment: which methodology?
- 4 A brief history of the sociology of social security 63
- The beginning of the art: the quest for understanding 63
- The revival in the 1980s: the quest for rationalisation 66
- The final pattern: sociological studies of social policy and welfare 70
- 5 A macro-sociological approach to the study of social security 73
- Presentation of an early forerunner of macro-sociological factor analysis 73
- The stages of maturation 74
- Themacro-sociological factor analysis of social security and its use 77
- 6 The use of macro-sociological factor analysis in comparative studies 97
- Comparing the social product of the institution 97
- Taking account of the 'cultural factor' 98
- The question of practical applicability 99
- The use of macro-sociological factor analysis in more recent studies 100
- Part 3 Reinventing social security in times of economic crisis: foundations of a new political consensus
- 7 Adapting social security to a new societal environment 107
- The impact of economic crises on the institution in a historical perspective 107
- The initial impact of the present economic crisis 109
- National economy as a permanent support of social security systems 110
- Search for a new political consensus on social security 112.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1847426417
- 9781847426413
- 9781847426406
- 1847426409
- OCLC:
- 578648105
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