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| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2018-11-26 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9004384111 |
The aim of this book project is to critically explore the impact of and responses to neoliberalization on distinct welfare state regimes. Cross-Atlantic comparisons and empirical examinations of social work practice and analytical theory make this collection unique.
| Author | : Simon Black |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0820357545 |
The transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story. In the decade following welfare reform, despite increases in child care funding, there was little growth in New York's unionized, center-based child care system and no attempt to make this system more responsive to the needs of working mothers. As the city delivered child care services "on the cheap," relying on non-union home child care providers, welfare rights organizations, community legal clinics, child care advocates, low-income community groups, activist mothers, and labor unions organized to demand fair solutions to the child care crisis that addressed poor single mothers' need for quality, affordable child care as well as child care providers' need for decent work and pay. Social Reproduction and the City tells this story, linking welfare reform to feminist research and activism around the "crisis of care," social reproduction, and the neoliberal city. At a theoretical level, Simon Black's history of this era presents a feminist political economy of the urban welfare regime, applying a social reproduction lens to processes of urban neoliberalization and an urban lens to feminist analyses of welfare state restructuring and resistance. Feminist political economy and feminist welfare state scholarship have not focused on the urban as a scale of analysis, and critical approaches to urban neoliberalism often fail to address questions of social reproduction. To address these unexplored areas, Black unpacks the urban as a contested site of welfare state restructuring and examines the escalating crisis in social reproduction. He lays bare the aftermath of the welfare-to-work agenda of the Giuliani administration in New York City on child care and the resistance to policies that deepened race, class, and gender inequities.
| Author | : Michelle L. Dion |
| Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2010-02-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0822973634 |
After the revolutionary period of 1910-1920, Mexico developed a number of social protection programs to support workers in public and private sectors and to establish safeguards for the poor and the aged. These included pensions, healthcare, and worker's compensation. The new welfare programs were the product of a complex interrelationship of corporate, labor, and political actors. In this unique dynamic, cross-class coalitions maintained both an authoritarian regime and social protection system for some seventy years, despite the ebb and flow of political and economic tides. By focusing on organized labor, and its powerful role in effecting institutional change, Workers and Welfare chronicles the development and evolution of Mexican social insurance institutions in the twentieth century. Beginning with the antecedents of social insurance and the adoption of pension programs for central government workers in 1925, Dion's analysis shows how the labor movement, up until the 1990s, was instrumental in expanding welfare programs, but has since become largely ineffective. Despite stepped-up efforts, labor has seen the retrenchment of many benefits. Meanwhile, Dion cites the debt crisis, neoliberal reform, and resulting changes in the labor market as all contributing to a rise in poverty. Today, Mexican welfare programs emphasize poverty alleviation, in a marked shift away from social insurance benefits for the working class.
| Author | : Peter A. Hall |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2013-04-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107034973 |
What is the impact of three decades of neoliberal narratives and policies on communities and individual lives? What are the sources of social resilience? This book offers a sweeping assessment of the effects of neoliberalism, the dominant feature of our times. It analyzes the ideology in unusually wide-ranging terms as a movement that not only opened markets but also introduced new logics into social life, integrating macro-level analyses of the ways in which neoliberal narratives made their way into international policy regimes with micro-level analyses of the ways in which individuals responded to the challenges of the neoliberal era. The product of ten years of collaboration among a distinguished group of scholars, it integrates institutional and cultural analysis in new ways to understand neoliberalism as a syncretic social process and to explore the sources of social resilience across communities in the developed and developing worlds.
| Author | : Masoud Kamali |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 425 |
| Release | : 2018-04-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1351620215 |
How have three decades of neoliberalism affected the Nordic welfare states as well as the organisation, education and practices of social work in those countries? During recent decades the welfare states of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have gone through dramatic changes infl uenced by the political triumph of neoliberalism. This has led to both the electoral success of extreme right and mainstream neoliberal parties, and to the neoliberal ideological transformations of social democratic parties. The neoliberal doctrine of making governance cheaper has thus been made the focus of governance and has led to increased marginalisation and social problems. This is the first book to comparatively explore the role of neoliberal reforms on social work and social policy across the Nordic welfare states. The richly theoretical and empirical chapters explore and illustrate the consequences of the dominance of neoliberal policies and provide an analysis of the effects of globalisation, glocalisation, welfare nationalism, symbolic violence and forced migration. The book provides valuable insights into the shortcomings of retreating welfare states in a time of increasing glocal social problems. Neoliberalism, Nordic Welfare States and Social Work should be considered essential reading for critical social work education. Students, scholars, educators and researchers of Nordic countries and beyond have much to learn from this book.
| Author | : J.D. Taylor |
| Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2013-03-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1780992610 |
Negative Capitalism: Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era offers a new conceptual framework for understanding the current economic crisis. Through a ranging series of analyses and perspectives, it argues that cynicism has become culturally embedded in the UK and US as an effect of disempowerment by neoliberal capitalism. Yet despite the deprivation and collapse of key social infrastructure like representative democracy, welfare, workers' rights and equal access to resources, there has so far been no collective, effective and sustained overthrow of capitalism. Why is this? The book's central call is for new strategies that unravel this narcissistic cynicism, embracing social democracy, constitutional rights, mass bankruptcies and animate sabotage. Kafka, Foucault, Ballard and de Sade are clashed with the X-Factor, ruinporn, London, and the artwork of Laura Oldfield Ford. Negative Capitalism's polemic is written to incite responses against the cynical malaise of the neoliberal era. ,
| Author | : Randolph Hohle |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2017-11-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1315527472 |
Racism in the Neoliberal Era explains how simple racial binaries like black/white are no longer sufficient to explain the persistence of racism, capitalism, and elite white power. The neoliberal era features the largest black middle class in US history and extreme racial marginalization. Hohle focuses on how the origins and expansion of neoliberalism depended on language or semiotic assemblage of white-private and black public. The language of neoliberalism explains how the white racial frame operates like a web of racial meanings that connect social groups with economic policy, geography, and police brutality. When America was racially segregated, elites consented to political pressure to develop and fund white-public institutions. The black civil rights movement eliminated legal barriers that prevented racial integration. In response to black civic inclusion, elite whites used a language of white-private/black-public to deregulate the Voting Rights Act and banking. They privatized neighborhoods, schools, and social welfare, creating markets around poverty. They oversaw the mass incarceration and systemic police brutality against people of color. Citizenship was recast as a privilege instead of a right. Neoliberalism is the result of the latest elite white strategy to maintain political and economic power.
| Author | : Mikael Wigell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
In response to the crisis of the welfare state model in the 1980s, governments in Latin America began restructuring social policy to emphasize poverty alleviation and targeted social programs specifically designed to promote the increased participation of the poor and other private actors in social welfare. This paper looks at the effects on state-society relations of this redefinition of social welfare policy. It shows how the adoption of the new social policy model in 1990s led to divergent effects on state-popular sector relations in Argentina and Chile. The research is based on extensive semi-structured interviews with policymakers in both countries. The context for the new social policy approach was the neoliberal transformation that effectively dismantled old forms of corporatist links between the state and the popular sectors. Stripped from corporatist mechanisms for channeling demands, securing control and mobilizing support, the governing elites in Argentina and Chile adopted the new social policy approach as a way to build new links to the popular sectors. In contrast with some of the expectations in literature, however, the institutional outcome has neither been uniform, nor has it resulted in a more pluralist mode of social governance. In Argentina, the outcome has been a neopopulist mode of social governance in which social funds are often captured by local politicians for clientelist machinations. In Chile, on the other hand, the outcome has been a technocratic mode of social governance, in which especially the most vulnerable sectors of society have found it increasingly difficult to participate and compete for social projects funding on the highly technical terms defined by state technocrats. The explanation for this diverging outcome is to be found in regime institutions. First of all, the centralist-unitary regime structure in Chile gives technocrats within the central state welfare bureaucracy strong control over the policymaking process. In contrast, Argentina's decentralized-federal regime structure provides provincial governors with strong control over the policymaking process. Secondly, strong institutions of horizontal accountability in Chile, prevents politicians from capturing social funds. In Argentina, weak institutions of horizontal accountability coupled with strong institutions of vertical accountability give politicians compelling incentives to divert social funds for populist and clientelist purposes. As such, the study shows how social governance is highly contingent on political regime structure.
| Author | : Suzanne Kahn |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2021-05-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 081225290X |
"This book examines feminist divorce reformers, their relationship with the broader feminist movement, and their lasting effects on the American social welfare regime. It shows how the two distinctive qualities of the American welfare state-its gendered nature and its public/private nature-combined to encourage the breadwinner-homemaker model of marriage's use as policy tool. The linking of access to economic benefits to marriage, begun early in the development of the American social insurance system, shaped political identity and activism in the 1970s and has continued to do so into our current political moment. The result has not only affected policy questions directly relating to marriage but also limited the possibilities for expanding America's social welfare provisions. As a gateway to full economic citizenship, marriage has always served as an institution that protects and perpetuates class privilege"--
| Author | : Loïc Wacquant |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2009-05-22 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0822392259 |
The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction of the state wedding restrictive “workfare” and expansive “prisonfare” under a philosophy of moral behaviorism. This paternalist program of penalization of poverty aims to curb the urban disorders wrought by economic deregulation and to impose precarious employment on the postindustrial proletariat. It also erects a garish theater of civic morality on whose stage political elites can orchestrate the public vituperation of deviant figures—the teenage “welfare mother,” the ghetto “street thug,” and the roaming “sex predator”—and close the legitimacy deficit they suffer when they discard the established government mission of social and economic protection. By bringing developments in welfare and criminal justice into a single analytic framework attentive to both the instrumental and communicative moments of public policy, Punishing the Poor shows that the prison is not a mere technical implement for law enforcement but a core political institution. And it reveals that the capitalist revolution from above called neoliberalism entails not the advent of “small government” but the building of an overgrown and intrusive penal state deeply injurious to the ideals of democratic citizenship. Visit the author’s website.
