Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Shaping the life course: a European perspective; 2. The UK welfare state: more than residual but still insufficient; 3. Towards an active and integrated life course policy: the Swedish experience; 4. From the breadwinner model to 'bricolage': Germany in search of a new life course model; 5. Transitions in female and male life course: changes and continuities in Austria; 6. Life course transitions in Hungary before and after the societal transformation.
7. From selective exclusion towards activation: a life course perspective on the French social model8. 'La grande illusion': how Italy's 'American dream' turned sour; 9. Life stage transitions and the still-critical role of the family in Greece; 10. The uncertain path from the Mediterranean welfare model in Spain; Index.
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The Welfare State and Life Transitions uses the lens of key life stages to highlight changes in these transitions and in available resources for citizen support within nine European welfare states. This timely book reveals that new life courses are found to require more, and not less welfare support, but only Sweden has developed an active life course approach and only three more could be considered supportive, in at least some life stages. For the remainder, policies were at best limited or, in Italy's case, passive. The contributors reveal that the neglect of changing needs is leading to gre.
Welfare state and life transitions.
Welfare state and life transitions.
9781847207807
9781847207807
Welfare state-- Europe, Cross-cultural studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services & Welfare.