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This book provides a critical and theoretically-informed assessment
of the nature and types of structural change occurring in the Irish
welfare state in the context of the 2008 economic crisis. Its
overarching framework for conceptualising and analysing welfare
state change and its political, economic and social implications is
based around four crucial questions, namely what welfare is for,
who delivers welfare, who pays for welfare, and who benefits. Over
the course of ten chapters, the authors examine the answers as they
relate to social protection, labour market activation, pensions,
finance, water, early child education and care, health, housing and
corporate welfare. They also innovatively address the impact of
crisis on the welfare state in Northern Ireland. The result is to
isolate key drivers of structural welfare reform, and assess how
globalisation, financialisation, neo-liberalisation, privatisation,
marketisation and new public management have deepened and
diversified their impact on the post-crisis Irish welfare state.
This in-depth analysis will appeal to sociologists, economists,
political scientists and welfare state practitioners interested in
the Irish welfare state and more generally in the analysis of
welfare state change.
This 2nd edition of a highly respected textbook offers a
comprehensive introduction to Irish social policy. It provides an
accessible, critical overview taking account of significant changes
over recent years. The book is organised across four key sections:
1: Traces the emergence and development of Irish social policy from
its origins to the present 2: Situates the Irish case in the wider
context of the politics, ideology and socio-economic factors
relevant to the development and reform of welfare states 3:
Analyses core social service areas with specific reference to the
contemporary Irish context 4: Explores how social policy affects
particular groups in Irish society including children, older
people, people with disabilities, carers, new immigrant and
minority ethnic groups, and LGBT people. Discusses the challenges
posed by environmental issues and the importance of a social policy
perspective Text boxes used throughout provide policy summaries,
definitions of key concepts, along with guides for further reading
and discussion. This is a valuable resource for undergraduate and
postgraduate students studying Irish social policy and allied
subjects.
The terms patriarchy, institutional racism, sustainable development
and alienation may be familiar but this familiarity is often
removed from the analytical contexts in which these ideas emerged.
This book provides a series of rich reflections on the interaction
between the radical ideas associated with these and other authors,
and political action in Ireland. The classic texts that comprise
the focal point for each chapter were selected by the contributors,
many of whom straddle the boundaries of academia and activism. Each
essay provides an account of the contributor's personal encounters
with the text, opens up the key mobilising ideas and considers how
the text has the potential invigorate the political imagination of
contemporary oppositional politics. This book will be of interest
to students in the social sciences, especially sociology and Irish
studies and will appeal to those interested or involved in
political activism of any variety. -- .
This book re-visits and re-thinks some recent defining events in
Irish society. Each chapter focuses on an event that has occurred
since the start of the twenty first century. Some were high
profile, some were 'fringe' events, others were widely discussed in
popular culture at the time. A number of chapters focus on key
moments of protest and popular mobilisation. All of the events
covered provide rich insights into the dynamics of Irish society;
exposing underlying and complex issues of identity, power and
resistance that animate public debate. The book ultimately
encourages readers to question the sources of, limits and obstacles
to change in contemporary Ireland. The book brings together
critical commentators from a diverse range of social science
disciplines. These writers make important contributions to
intellectual life and discourse about social, economic and cultural
issues in today's Ireland. This makes for an original, timely and
genuinely inter-disciplinary text. -- .
This book re-visits and re-thinks some recent defining events in
Irish society. Each chapter focuses on an event that has occurred
since the start of the twenty first century. Some were high
profile, some were 'fringe' events, others were widely discussed in
popular culture at the time. A number of chapters focus on key
moments of protest and popular mobilisation. All of the events
covered provide rich insights into the dynamics of Irish society;
exposing underlying and complex issues of identity, power and
resistance that animate public debate. The book ultimately
encourages readers to question the sources of, limits and obstacles
to change in contemporary Ireland. The book brings together
critical commentators from a diverse range of social science
disciplines. These writers make important contributions to
intellectual life and discourse about social, economic and cultural
issues in today's Ireland. This makes for an original, timely and
genuinely inter-disciplinary text. -- .
This 2nd edition of a highly respected textbook offers a
comprehensive introduction to Irish social policy. It provides an
accessible, critical overview taking account of significant changes
over recent years. The book is organised across four key sections:
1: Traces the emergence and development of Irish social policy from
its origins to the present 2: Situates the Irish case in the wider
context of the politics, ideology and socio-economic factors
relevant to the development and reform of welfare states 3:
Analyses core social service areas with specific reference to the
contemporary Irish context 4: Explores how social policy affects
particular groups in Irish society including children, older
people, people with disabilities, carers, new immigrant and
minority ethnic groups, and LGBT people. Discusses the challenges
posed by environmental issues and the importance of a social policy
perspective Text boxes used throughout provide policy summaries,
definitions of key concepts, along with guides for further reading
and discussion. This is a valuable resource for undergraduate and
postgraduate students studying Irish social policy and allied
subjects.
This book investigates the changing patterns of labour market and
unemployment policies in EU member states during the period since
fiscal austerity took hold in 2010 during the deepest postwar
recession in Europe. Looking at the big European picture, do we see
a convergence or a divergence in labour market and unemployment
policy trends and outputs? Has labour market insecurity increased
or decreased and can these changes be associated with the observed
changes in labour market policies and macroeconomic conditions?
Written by leading experts in the field, the book provides detailed
national case studies from across the EU, which span labour market
regimes and intensities of fiscal pressures to explore whether, and
if so how, retrenchment or expansion have taken place across
different types of labour market policies and how these changes
have been distributed across the well-protected and the less
well-protected labour market populations.
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