Social Policy in Times of Austerity (eBook, ePUB)

Global Economic Crisis and the New Politics of Welfare
Redaktion: Farnsworth, Kevin; Irving, Zoë

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The 2008 global economic crisis was unprecedented in living memory and its impact on economic and social life immense. Large-scale social policy interventions played a crucial role in helping to mediate the crisis, and yet the welfare state continues to come under attack. A new age of austerity, based more on politics than economics, is threatening to undermine the very foundations of the welfare state. However, as this important book illustrates, there is still room for optimism - resistance to the logic of austerity exists within organisations and governments, and among peoples, demonstrating how essential social policies remain to human progress. The second of a three-book series covering the post-2008 global economic crisis and the period of austerity, this volume draws together edited chapters from leading scholars engaged in the debate and will be equally suitable for academics and other researchers studying international and comparative social policy, as well as upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447319153
• Artikelnr.: 44873943

Autorenporträt

Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving are both senior lecturers in international social policy at the University of York, UK. Kevin has published widely on issues relating to the political economy of social policies and welfare states. Zoë has previously published on social policy development in small island states. Together they are co-editors of Social Policy in Challenging Times (Policy Press, 2011) and the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy.