Gebundenes Buch

Changing Social Risks and Social Policy Responses in the Nordic Welfare States

Beschreibung

The Nordic welfare states have found themselves in the firing line of post-industrial developments, resulting in fundamental changes and new social needs to attend to. This book explores responses to changing social risks across areas such as structural unemployment, entrepreneurship, immigration, single parenthood, education and health.

Autor

Synøve Nygaard Andersen, Statistics Norway, Norway Malcolm P. Cutchin, University of North Carolina, US Uffe Enokson, Linnaeus University, Sweden Ariana Guilherme Fernandes, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Mia Hakovirta, University of Turku, Finland Susan Kuivalainen, National Institute for Health and Welfare in Helsinki, Finland Christian Albrekt Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Kristian Larsen, Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway Alexandru Panican, Lund University, Sweden Minna Rantalaiho, Social Worker, Finland Iver Hornemann Møller, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Simone Scarpa, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-26718-4
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 295
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9781137267184
• ISBN-10: 1137267186
• Artikelnr.: 39403033

Rezensionen

"Ivan Harslof and Rickard Ulmestig have compiled an excellent collection of studies that take a hard look at how different Nordic countries respond to changing social risks. This book brings a corrective lens to bear on policies related to market oriented management techniques, activation, privatization, decentralization, working-time regulations, support of lone parents, and assimilation of newly arrived immigrants. As such it offers an original view which highlights the impact of an emerging neo-liberal agenda on the Nordic responses to new social risks. A remarkable contribution to the typically idealized view of Nordic welfare states, this volume represents an example of critical analysis at its best." - Neil Gilbert, Chernin Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, USA