Poverty, Social Assistance, and the Empl : : Restructuring Welfare States /

Poverty, Social Assistance, and the Empl : : Restructuring Welfare States / / Maureen Baker, David Tippin.

Why do some welfare states provide income support for mothers to care for their school-aged children at home while others expect them to find employment when their youngest child is six months old? This study, a fundamental contribution to social policy and social welfare theory, compares recent eff...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Baker, Maureen,
Tippin, David,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1999
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Setting the Stage
  • 2. Gendering the Analysis of Restructuring
  • 3. Government Debt and Policy Choices: Restructuring in Canada
  • 4. From Public to Private Dependency? Reforming Policies in Australia
  • 5. The ‘Great Experiment’: Restructuring New Zealand’s Social Programs
  • 6. The United Kingdom: Restructuring the ‘Nanny State’
  • 7. Welfare-State Restructuring: The Poverty of Employability
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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