Описание: This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and tries to create their own autonomous household, with or without children, exploring questions such as what does it mean to be a young adult in Europe today and what social policies help them to combine work and family life?
While the extent of female participation in the labor force varies across western countries, most have experienced a substantial change in women's attachment to the world of paid work. Everywhere, this trend has raised two central questions related to the children of working mothers: Should mothers of young children work outside the home at all? And if so, who bears responsibility for assuring the care and well-being of their children? Comparing the various policy choices made across France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States, the book shows that there are differences in the extent to which societies accept both the idea of working mothers and the role of the state in shaping gender roles and children's lives.
Morgan employs a comparative historical approach that focuses on three time periods: the late nineteenth century, the era of rapid welfare state expansion from 1945 to 1975, and the period of seeming welfare state stagnation since the mid-1970s. The author shows how, starting in the nineteenth century, religion influenced political development in the four countries the book studies. Historic patterns of church-state relations and conflicts over religion affected ideologies about gender roles and the family, as well as the way religious forces would be incorporated into political life. These forces shaped welfare policy between 1945 and 1975, a critical time for social policy expansion. During this period, socially conservative forces in countries such as the Netherlands and the United States blocked policies that would encourage mothers to work, while the weakness of these forces enabled such policies in both Sweden and France. Morgan concludes that these policy decisions have had an enduring impact, in part because the expansion of the welfare state has been curtailed since the 1970s.
Автор: Boling Название: The Politics of Work–Family Policies ISBN: 1107484103 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107484108 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book critiques the idealization of work-family policies in Sweden and France and argues for the need to think carefully about policy changes. Patricia Boling discusses policy processes in the US, France, Germany and Japan, addressing the need to support working families with practical ideas about how to initiate change.
Автор: Boling Название: The Politics of Work–Family Policies ISBN: 1107098122 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107098121 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book critiques the idealization of work-family policies in Sweden and France and argues for the need to think carefully about policy changes. Patricia Boling discusses policy processes in the US, France, Germany and Japan, addressing the need to support working families with practical ideas about how to initiate change.
Автор: Egerer Название: Gambling Policies in European Welfare States ISBN: 3319906194 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319906195 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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1. Introduction, Gambling Regulations and the Use of Gambling Revenues in European Welfare States; Janne Nikkinen, Michael Egerer, and Virve Marionneau.- Part I. Gambling for State-Run Welfare.- 2. Gambling for the State: The Collection and Redistribution of Gambling Proceeds in France; Virve Marionneau & Sйbastian Berret.- 3. Italian Gambling Regulation: Justifications and Counter-Arguments; Sara Rolando & Alice Scavarda.- 4. Gambling Policies and Law in Austria; Stefan Storr & Daniela Bereiter.- 5. Gambling Regulation in Spain; Elisardo Becoсa Lucнa Becoсa.- Part II. Gambling for Designated Purposes.- 6. Gambling and Doing Good? On the Relationship Between Gambling Regulations and Welfare Services in Germany; Kathrin Loer.- 7. Gambling Policies in Slovenia: Financing Tourism Infrastructure, Sports and Designated Non-Governmental Organisations; Tamara Besednjak Valič & Mirna Macur.- 8. State Lotteries in Europe: A Cross-National Comparison of How Lotteries are Controlled, Operated and Benefit Government, Private Industry and Civil Society; Lynn E. Gidluck.- 9. The DNA of Bingo: Charity and Online Bingo; Donal Casey.- Part III. Legislative Changes.- 10. Why Restrict? Seven Explanations for the Electronic Gambling Machines Monopoly in Norway; Anita Borch.- 11. The Future Swedish Gambling Market: Challenges in Law and Public Policies; Jenny Cisnerosm Цrnberg & Jцrgen Hettne.- 12. After the Storm: An Analaysis of Gambling Legislation in Poland and Its Effects; Lukasz Wieczorek & Michal Bujalski, - Part IV. Theoretical Perspectives.- 13. The Regulation of Gambling in Early Twenty-First Century Britain: Liberalisation and Its Consequences; Jim Orford, - 14. Conceptions of the Common Good; Johanna Jдrvinen-Tassopoulos & Risto Erдsaari. - 15. The Public Interest Approach to Gambling Policy and Research; Pekka Sulkunen.- 16. Conclusion: Contradictions in Promoting Gambling for Good Causes; Virve Marionneau, Janne Nikkinen & Michael Egerer.
Автор: Michael Egerer; Virve Marionneau; Janne Nikkinen Название: Gambling Policies in European Welfare States ISBN: 3030080560 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030080563 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This edited book draws on a cross-cultural and historical lens to theoretically and practically analyse gambling regulations and the use of gambling revenue. It takes on a broad spectrum of perspectives, from the origin of the money, to the regulators, operators and beneficiaries of gambling, and looks at the interests, networks and power relations involved.This multidisciplinary collection elicits a shift in analysis, shedding light on a broader societal, historical and economic view of gambling and gambling policies, by its attention to implicit networks of power, influential legislation, gambling provision and infrastructure.Gambling Policies in European Welfare States will be of interest to students and scholars alike who are seeking cross-national and interdisciplinary analyses of welfare, politics, sociology and economics.
Описание: This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and tries to create their own autonomous household, with or without children, exploring questions such as what does it mean to be a young adult in Europe today and what social policies help them to combine work and family life?
In the early 1990s, the countries of the former Soviet Bloc faced an urgent need to reform the systems by which they delivered broad, basic social welfare to their citizens. Inherited systems were inefficient and financially unsustainable. Linda J. Cook here explores the politics and policy of social welfare from 1990 to 2004 in the Russian Federation, Poland, Hungary, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.
Most of these countries, she shows, tried to institute reforms based on a liberal paradigm of reduced entitlements and subsidies, means-testing, and privatization. But these proposals provoked opposition from pro-welfare interests, and the politics of negotiating change varied substantially from one political arena to another. In Russia, for example, liberalizing reform was blocked for a decade. Only as Vladimir Putin rose to power did the country change its inherited welfare system.
Cook finds that the impact of economic pressures on welfare was strongly mediated by domestic political factors, including the level of democratization and balance of pro- and anti-reform political forces. Postcommunist welfare politics throughout Russia and Eastern Europe, she shows, are marked by the large role played by bureaucratic welfare stakeholders who were left over from the communist period and, in weak states, by the development of informal processes in social sectors.
Unfinished Business documents the history and impact of California's paid family leave program, the first of its kind in the United States, which began in 2004. Drawing on original data from fieldwork and surveys of employers, workers, and the larger California adult population, Ruth Milkman and Eileen Appelbaum analyze in detail the effect of the state’s landmark paid family leave on employers and workers. They also explore the implications of California’s decade-long experience with paid family leave for the nation, which is engaged in ongoing debate about work-family policies.Milkman and Appelbaum recount the process by which California workers and their allies built a coalition to win passage of paid family leave in the state legislature, and lay out the lessons for advocates in other states and localities, as well as the nation. Because paid leave enjoys extensive popular support across the political spectrum, campaigns for such laws have an excellent chance of success if some basic preconditions are met. Do paid family leave and similar programs impose significant costs and burdens on employers? Business interests argue that they do and routinely oppose any and all legislative initiatives in this area. Once the program took effect in California, this book shows, large majorities of employers themselves reported that its impact on productivity, profitability, and performance was negligible or positive.Unfinished Business demonstrates that the California program is well managed and easy to access, but that awareness of its existence remains limited. Moreover, those who need the program’s benefits most urgently—low-wage workers, young workers, immigrants, and disadvantaged minorities—are least likely to know about it. As a result, the long-standing pattern of inequality in access to paid leave has remained largely intact.
The United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide paid family leave at the national level for either men or women. In the more than two decades since the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act, there have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to expand family leave benefits nationally. However, in the United States, it is common for innovations in family policies to arise at the state level.
In her timely book, Getting Paid While Taking Time, Megan Sholar explains the development of family leave policies at both the national and state levels in the United States. She provides cogent studies of states that have passed and proposed family leave legislation, and she pays special attention to the ways in which women’s movement actors and other activists (e.g., labor unions) exert pressure on public officials to help influence the policymaking process. In her conclusion, Sholar considers the future of paid family leave policies in the United States and the chances for it ever equaling the benefits in other countries.
The United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide paid family leave at the national level for either men or women. In the more than two decades since the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act, there have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to expand family leave benefits nationally. However, in the United States, it is common for innovations in family policies to arise at the state level.
In her timely book, Getting Paid While Taking Time, Megan Sholar explains the development of family leave policies at both the national and state levels in the United States. She provides cogent studies of states that have passed and proposed family leave legislation, and she pays special attention to the ways in which women’s movement actors and other activists (e.g., labor unions) exert pressure on public officials to help influence the policymaking process. In her conclusion, Sholar considers the future of paid family leave policies in the United States and the chances for it ever equaling the benefits in other countries.
Автор: Taylor-Gooby Название: Ideas and Welfare State Reform in Western Europe ISBN: 1403993173 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403993175 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book reviews the main policy paradigms and analyzes the processes whereby they have changed in the most salient policy areas, and is based on recent interviews with more than two hundred and fifty senior policy actors in seven West European countries.
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