The rise and fall of the welfare state /

The rise and fall of the welfare state / / Asbjørn Wahl.

In an age of government imposed austerity, and after 30 years of neo-liberal restructuring, the future of the welfare state looks increasingly uncertain. Asbjorn Wahl offers an accessible analysis of the situation across Europe, identifies the most important challenges and presents practical proposa...

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Wahl, Asbjørn,
Place / Publishing House:London ;, New York : : Pluto,, [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication page
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction
  • Freedom and equality
  • Who owns the welfare state?
  • Power and polarization
  • The non-historical approach
  • About the book
  • 2 The power base
  • Historical background
  • The class compromise
  • System competition
  • The content and ideology of the compromise
  • Restraining market forces
  • A broader concept of the welfare state
  • 3 The turning point
  • Globalization - or market fundamentalism?
  • Deregulation
  • The economy of madness
  • Privatization
  • Three phases - three stages
  • Monopolization and corruption
  • What went wrong?
  • 4 The shift in the balance of power
  • Attacks on the trade unions
  • The end of the class compromise
  • The employers failed in Norway
  • The undermining of democracy
  • Deregulation and privatization
  • Forms of organization and management
  • Supranational agreements and institutions
  • The myth of the powerless state
  • 5 The attacks
  • Poverty and increasing inequality
  • Pensions under attack
  • But Norway is best …
  • Crisis and shock therapy
  • The transformation of welfare
  • 6 The brutalization of work
  • Labour as a commodity
  • Brutalization and exclusion
  • The demands of neoliberalism
  • Social dumping
  • Driving forces
  • Abolish workfare policies!
  • Loss of welfare?
  • 7 The misery of symbol politics
  • The workfare fiasco
  • Blessed are the poor?
  • From power struggle to legal formalism
  • 8 Challenges and alternatives
  • Changes to power relations
  • The struggle is already on
  • The European Union as a barrier
  • Internal political-ideological barriers
  • Politicization and revitalization
  • A new course!
  • Freedom
  • Endnotes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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