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Transformation of the Welfare State - The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility (Paperback, New edition)
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Transformation of the Welfare State - The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility (Paperback, New edition)
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Since the early 1970s, debate has raged over the "crisis of the
welfare state." As the United States successfully exported its
bootstrap brand of capitalism and an ever-broadening range of
public activity came to be viewed through the prism of profit and
loss, social welfare policies were closely scrutinized worldwide.
Welfare was no longer seen as a means to remedy the inherent flaws
of capitalism, but rather was recast as part of the very problem it
was designed to solve. At the same time, the glaring systemic
deficiencies of extant welfare systems-and the psychological toll
of welfare dependency-became increasingly apparent, even to
welfare's supporters. How much has really changed in the world of
welfare? A great deal, according to Neil Gilbert, one of our most
deeply engaged and thoughtful analysts of social welfare policy. In
this panoramic inquiry, Gilbert spans the globe to assess, in
provocative yet dispassionate fashion, what welfare looks like in a
free market world. From Sweden to the U.S., Gilbert finds a
fundamental transformation in the welfare state-a turn away from
broad-based entitlements and automatic benefits to a new,
"enabling" approach defined by policies designed to promote
privatization and labor force participation. He provides tangible
evidence of how these new systems promote work and responsibility
over protection and how they thicken the glue of civil society by
diluting the pervasive role of government. Translating the new
language of solidarity, activation, and social inclusion that has
accompanied these changes, Gilbert reveals that these shifts have
had surprisingly broad-based support. Traditional welfare
supporters on the left are silently implementing reforms long
associated with the policy agenda of the Right. Gilbert concludes
with policy recommendations intended to temper the harder,
unforgiving edges of this new social protection mentality with
pragmatic assistance for those left behind. Illuminating a
fundamental shift in the design of modern welfare systems, this
landmark work is a must-read for anyone concerned with social
policy today.
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