Democracy and the Welfare State : The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity / Alice Kessler-Harris, Maurizio Vaudagna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kessler-Harris, Alice, editor.

Vaudagna, Maurizio, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state--European Union countries.

Welfare state.

Welfare state--United States.

Capitalism--Political aspects--European Union countries.

Capitalism.

Capitalism--Political aspects--United States.

Democracy--Social aspects--European Union countries.

Democracy.

Democracy--Social aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

After World War II, states on both sides of the Atlantic enacted comprehensive social benefits to protect working people and constrain capitalism. A widely shared consensus specifically linked social welfare to democratic citizenship, upholding greater equality as the glue that held nations together. Though the "two Wests," Europe and the United States, differ in crucial respects, they share a common history of social rights, democratic participation, and welfare capitalism. But in a new age of global inequality, welfare-state retrenchment, and economic austerity, can capitalism and democracy still coexist?In this book, leading historians and social scientists rethink the history of social democracy and the welfare state in the United States and Europe in light of the global transformations of the economic order. Separately and together, they ask how changes in the distribution of wealth reshape the meaning of citizenship in a post-welfare-state era. They explore how the harsh effects of austerity and inequality influence democratic participation. In individual essays as well as interviews with Ira Katznelson and Frances Fox Piven, contributors from both sides of the Atlantic explore the fortunes of the welfare state. They discuss distinct national and international settings, speaking to both local particularities and transnational and transatlantic exchanges. Covering a range of topics-the lives of migrant workers, gender and the family in the design of welfare policies, the fate of the European Union, and the prospects of social movements-Democracy and the Welfare State is essential reading on what remains of twentieth-century social democracy amid the onslaught of neoliberalism and right-wing populism and where this legacy may yet lead us.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Kessler-Harris, Alice

Chapter One. Historians Interpret the Welfare State, 1975-1995 / Vaudagna, Maurizio

Part I.Democracy and the Welfare State in Europe and the United States

Chapter Two. Reconciling European Integration and the National Welfare State / Ferrera, Maurizio

Chapter Three. Democracy After the Welfare State / Katznelson, Ira

Part II. Varieties of Retrenchment

Chapter Four. Privatization and Self-Responsibility / Lammert, Christian

Chapter Five. Paradise Lost? / Hagemann, Gro

Chapter Six. Social Citizenship in the U.S. Affordable Care Act / Hoffman, Beatrix

Chapter Seven. In the Shadow of Employment Precarity / Chauvin, Sébastien

Chapter Eight. From the Welfare State to the Carceral State / Abramovitz, Mimi

Part III. Gender, the Family, and Social Provision

Chapter Nine. Family Matters / Saraceno, Chiara

Chapter Ten. Transforming Gendered Labor Policies in Sweden and the United States, 1960s-2000s / Orloff, Ann Shola

Chapter Eleven. Breadwinner Liberalism and Its Discontents in the American Welfare State / Self, Robert O.

Part IV. Possibilities of Resistance

Chapter Twelve. Nationalism's Challenge to European Citizenship, Democracy, and Equality / Siim, Birte

Chapter Thirteen. Poor-People Power / Chappell, Marisa

Chapter Fourteen. Grassroots Challenges to Capitalism / Piven, Frances Fox

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)

ISBN:

9780231542654

0231542658

OCLC:

1023551391