The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society: A Global Perspective PDF
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P o w e l l · H e n d Jason L. Powell r i c k Jon Hendricks s E Editors d s . 1 T he Welfare State T in Post-Industrial h e W e l Society f a r e S t a t e A Global Perspective i n P o s t - I n d u s t r i a l S o c i 123 e t y The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society Jason Powell Jon (Joe) Hendricks l The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society A Global Perspective 1 3 JasonPowell Jon(Joe)Hendricks SchoolofSociology&SocialPolicy OregonStateUniversity UniversityofLiverpool CorvallisOR97331-2302 BedfordStreetSouth,Liverpool USA EleanorRathboneBldg. [email protected] UnitedKingdomL697ZA [email protected] ISBN978-1-4419-0065-4 e-ISBN978-1-4419-0066-1 DOI10.1007/978-1-4419-0066-1 SpringerDordrechtHeidelbergLondonNewYork LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2009928458 #SpringerScienceþBusinessMedia,LLC2009 Allrightsreserved.Thisworkmaynotbetranslatedorcopiedinwholeorinpartwithoutthewritten permissionofthepublisher(SpringerScienceþBusinessMedia,LLC,233SpringStreet,NewYork, NY10013,USA),exceptforbriefexcerptsinconnectionwithreviewsorscholarlyanalysis.Usein connectionwithanyformofinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computer software,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdevelopedisforbidden. Theuseinthispublicationoftradenames,trademarks,servicemarks,andsimilarterms,evenifthey arenotidentifiedassuch,isnottobetakenasanexpressionofopinionastowhetherornottheyare subjecttoproprietaryrights. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScienceþBusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Contents PartI RethinkingSocialWelfareinaPost-industrialWorld 1 TheWelfareStateinPost-industrialSociety:TheLay oftheLand............................................. 3 Jon(Joe)HendricksandJasonL.Powell 2 SocialQualityinPost-industrialSocieties:TheGrowthofMigrant RemittancesinInternationalSocialWelfare ................... 19 YitzhakBermanandDavidPhillips 3 AginginPost-industrialSocieties:IntergenerationalConflict andSolidarity........................................... 41 AlexDumasandBryanS.Turner 4 SocialWelfare,Aging,andGlobalizationinaPost-industrial Society................................................ 57 ChrisPhillipson 5 InSearchofaNewWelfareStateinEurope:AnInternational Perspective............................................. 71 AntonHemerijck 6 Gender,Marriage,andFamilyinPost-industrialSociety:An InternationalPerspective .................................. 99 RyanSheppard 7 HealthandHealthCareinPost-industrialSociety............... 125 RobinGauld 8 Post-industrialSocietyandAginginaGlobalWorld:The DemographicContextofSocialWelfare ...................... 141 JasonL.PowellandCynthiaLeedham v vi Contents 9 OntheRoadtoWelfareMarkets:Institutional,Organizational, andCulturalDynamicsofaNewEuropeanWelfareState Settlement ............................................. 161 IngoBode PartII SocialWelfareinPost-industrialSocieties:International Comparisons 10 ANordicWelfareStateinPost-industrialSociety............... 181 JormaSipila¨,AnneliAnttonen,andTeppoKro¨ger 11 CitizenshipandEducationinPost-industrialSocieties............ 201 AntoninWagner 12 EnglandandWales:TheCriminalJusticeSystemin‘Post-industrial Society’ ............................................... 217 TimOwen 13 Canada:NewIdeologyandSocialAssistanceinPost-industrial Society................................................ 235 PatriciaM.Daenzer 14 UnitedStates:SocialWelfarePolicyandPrivatization inPost-industrialSociety.................................. 253 MichaelReisch 15 Australia:ContemporaryIssuesandDebatesontheSocialWelfare System................................................ 271 MelGrayandKylieAgllias 16 SouthAfricaandPost-industrialism:DevelopmentalSocial Welfare–APolicyFrameworkforSocialServices withChildren ........................................... 293 AntoinetteLombard 17 PrivatizationTrendsinWelfareServicesandTheirImpactupon IsraelasaWelfareState .................................. 311 JosephKatanandArielaLowenstein 18 SouthKorea:BalancingSocialWelfareinPost-industrialSociety.... 333 HyunsookYoon Index..................................................... 347 Contributors KylieAgllias SchoolofSocialWork,UniversityofNewcastle,NewSouth Wales,Australia AnneliAnttonen DepartmentofSocialResearch,UniversityofTampere, Tampere,Finland YitzhakBerman EuropeanCenterforSocialWelfarePolicyandResearch, Vienna IngoBode Instituteforsocialpolicyandtheorganisationofsocialservices, DepartmentofSocialWork,UniversityofKassel,Germany PatriciaM.Daenzer DepartmentofSocialWork,McMasterUniversity, Hamilton,Ontario.Canada AlexDumas FacultyofHealthSciences,UniversityofOttawa,Ontario, Canada RobinGauld DepartmentofPreventiveandSocialMedicine,Universityof Otago,Dunedin,NewZealand MelGray InstituteofSocialWellbeing,UniversityofNewcastle,NewSouth Wales,Australia AntonHemerijck(Eramus) DeanFacultyofSocialSciences,FreeUniversity, Amsterdam,Netherlands Jon(Joe)Hendricks OfficeofProvost,OregonStateUniversity,Oregon,USA HyunsookYoon DepartmentofSocialWelfare,HallymUniversity,South Korea JosephKatan SchoolofSocialWork,Tel-AvivUniversity,Tel-Aviv,Israel TeppoKro¨ger DepartmentofSocialSciencesandPhilosophy,University ofJyva¨skyla¨,Jyva¨skyla¨,Finland CynthiaLeedham DepartmentofSociology,UniversityofKentucky, Kentucky,USA vii viii Contributors AntoinetteLombard SchoolofSocialWork,UniversityofPretoria,Pretoria, SouthAfrica ArielaLowenstein CenterforResearch&StudyofAging,FacultyofWelfare& HealthSciences,TheUniversityofHaifa,Haifa,Israel DavidPhillips DepartmentofSociologicalStudies,UniversityofSheffield,UK ChrisPhillipson CentreforSocialGerontology,KeeleUniversity,Keele, Staffordshire,UK JasonL.Powell SchoolofSociologyandSocialPolicy,University ofLiverpool,Liverpool,UK TimOwen CentreforCriminologyandCriminalJustice,UniversityofCentral Lancashire,Preston,UK MichaelReisch SchoolofSocialWork,UniversityofMaryland,Baltimore,MD, USA RyanSheppard FacultyofSociology,StOlafCollege,UniversityofThailand, Thailand JormaSipila¨ DepartmentofSocialWorkResearch,UniversityofTampere (until July 31, 2009); Institute for social research, University of Tampere, Tampere,Finland(fromAugust1,2009) BryanS.Turner DepartmentofSociology,WellesleyCollege,Wellesley,MA, USA AWagner TheNewSchoolforManagementandUrbanPolicy,NewYork City,USA Part I Rethinking Social Welfare in a Post-industrial World Chapter 1 The Welfare State in Post-industrial Society: The Lay of the Land Jon(Joe)HendricksandJasonL.Powell Introduction Tosaythattheworldisafardifferentplacethanitwasjustafewshortdecades agosoundsatriflebanal.Hasthatnotbeenthecasethroughouthistory?Well, yes, this is indeed true, but it is our contention that the dynamics of change underwent a qualitative transformation in the latter half of the twentieth century.Aswemoveintowhatcanbecalledtheglobalcentury,manyaspects oflifearechanging,andpost-industrialshiftsareunparalleledbyvirtueofthe interconnectedness that brings together the far corners of the globe. New technologies,neweconomicrelationships,newsocialprocesses,andnewpoli- tical processes are all characteristics of globalization (Hudson & Lowe, 2004: 22).Astheworldhascontracted,people’squalityoflifehaschangedregardless ofwheretheylive.Infact,thepropagationoffreemarketmind-setsinemerging economieshascreatedcollectivenetworkconnectionswithconsiderablegood butpervasiveinequalitiesaswell.Aprincipalgoalofthisvolumeistoexplicate how these changes are of historical scale, how they are part of what post- industrial welfare is all about, and how they play out in terms of risks and inequalitiesshapinghumanexperience. The Shape of Well-Being and Inequality Ontheupside,lifeexpectancy,healthstatus,andpercapitaincomeareatanall- time high and many feudal practices have been relegated to the past. On the downside,vastnumbersofpeoplestrugglewithpovertyandsignificantpockets ofpovertyportendmorethanlackofincome.Thoselivingonthebottomofthe socioeconomic ladder labor under the burden of avoidable, lifestyle diseases, hungerandrelatedmaladies,nottomentionmyriadsocialrisks.Thoseonthe upper reaches of the same ladder garner disproportionate shares of the J.Hendricks(*) OfficeofProvost,OregonStateUniversity,Oregon,USA J.Powell,J.Hendricks,TheWelfareStateinPost-IndustrialSociety, 3 DOI10.1007/978-1-4419-0066-1_1,(cid:2)SpringerScienceþBusinessMedia,LLC2009
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