The social question in the global world / edited by Ewa Bogalska-Martin and Emmanuel Matteudi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bogalska-Martin, Ewa, editor.

Matteudi, Emmanuel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 320 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

In an era of rapid globalisation, how can the changes that characterise how the social question is addressed in rich and emerging countries be analysed? How can one interpret the crisis in the Welfare State and the emergence of new social policies that push for the financial contribution of beneficiaries and the development of new forms of solidarity? What can be said about the world's poorest countries and their recurrent difficulty in benefiting from international aid to fight against poverty and ensure the protection of all people? This volume brings together 24 researchers from around the world to analyse a series of case studies of developed, emerging and developing countries. They study the evolution or decline observed in these countries and propose some answers to the issue of the way in which the economic model influences how the social question is taken into account around the world. A closer look reveals that the manner in which this question is addressed largely determines how the evolution of the world is perceived. While the contributors here highlight how capitalism makes it possible to reflect on the issue of social protection, they also show the limits of policies unable to guarantee this protection as soon as the economic situation can no longer allow countries to bear its costs.

Contents:

Introduction : The globalisation process and changes of the social question / Ewa Bogalska-Martin and Emmanuel Matteudi

Part one: global change: labour, new precarious populations and the social question

1. migration movements in the era of globalisation: between the exportation of surplus populations and the conquest of the transnational space ? Jacques Barou

2. the social question, the labour market and precarious integration in Brazil / Francisco E. Beckenkamp Vargas

3. examining the the social question as a global phenomenon: a political paradox / Ewa Bogalska-Martin

Part two. welfare policies: historical perspectives and national experiences

4. social welfare and social protection policies in France / Robert Lafore

contention and debates about social policies and inequalities in contemporary Chile / Vicente Espinoza and Emmanuelle Barozet

6. social inclusion policies in Latin America: the left in power / Christian Adel Mirza

7. the social question in Tunisia: from independence to revolution / Jalloul Sghari and Roula Masou

8. the impact of economic and political changes on the social situation of the population: the case of Slovakia / Maria Uramova, Maria Horehajova and Jana Marasova

Part three. governance practices: comparative perspectives

9. governance reflections and social practices in China and Brazil: Michel Foucault and Confucius / Francois Laplantine

10. governance, access to banking services and social welfare: analysing conditional transfers in the health and pension systems in Colombia / Oscar Rodriguez Salazar, Decsi Arevalo

11. the practice of putting welfare beneficiaries to work and social welfare in Belgium: what integration? / Sebastien Avanzo

12. the principle of equal representation: a social protection tool in decline or an agent of change? the French case / Stephanie Lecocq-Matteudi

13. sub-proletarianisation in Europe as part of neoliberal globalisation: "poor developing countries" catch up with the rich? / Patrick Bruneteaux, Agueda Pryska and Tiago Lemoes

Part four. vulnerability and action: reinventing social protection as compensation for the absence of social policies: narrating a project undertaken in Burundi / Emmanuel Matteudi

15. uncertainty and vulnerability among Bhopal's metal workers: an anthropology of precariousness / Arnaud Kaba

16. daily survival: the working poor and the difficulties associated with the formation of "class consciousness" in Morocco / Brahim Labari

17. right to health care and inequalities in the public health system in Brazil: some vulnerability contexts / Marcelo Castellanos.

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ISBN:

1-5275-1034-4

OCLC:

1031847704