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Welfare in an Idle Society? - Reinventing Retirement, Work, Wealth, Health and Welfare (Hardcover)
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Welfare in an Idle Society? - Reinventing Retirement, Work, Wealth, Health and Welfare (Hardcover)
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The modern welfare state is indeed one of the greatest achievements
of the post-war 20th century. With its key aims of eradicating the
five giant social ills of Want, Ignorance, Disease, Squalor and
Idleness, it aimed to providing a minimum standard of living, with
all people of working age paying a weekly contribution; in return,
benefits would be paid to anyone who was sick, unemployed, retired
or widowed. The modern welfare state, therefore, is about
maintaining a delicate equilibrium between dependent social groups
on the one hand and the active working classes on the other. In the
case of old-age security, this balance is being achieved (or not)
by the so-called Generation Contract. This social pact is more of
an implicit, unwritten and unspecified social contract. This
ground-breaking book demonstrates how countries are addressing
population-ageing challenges in depth, using the case study of
Austria to gain the required complexity and differentiation in a
comparative European framework of empirical evidence. This is a
broad social science study in political economy and sociology, not
an economic analysis. Though focusing on pensions, it centres on
the (im)balance between work and non-work, issues of health, work
ability, employability, and benefit receipt from old-age security
to disability allowance. It will be required reading for all
sociologists and social policy experts and academics working within
this area.
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