Drawing on the very best and most influential of writing on welfare of the past fifty years, and featuring the work of more than thirty key authors, this title shows how, why, and for whom the politics of welfare has attained this newly central status. It brings together works from a wide range of (sometimes inaccessible) sources and includes pieces from the earliest years of postwar welfare state growth right through to the very latest debates about aging, competitiveness, and globalization.
Selected and edited by two internationally respected researchers and teachers in the field, it encompasses representatives of both the most important theoretical approaches to welfare and the very latest comparative empirical research. A final section maps out the terrain on which the next battles for welfare will be fought.
