The future of welfare in a global Europe / Bernd Marin (ed.)

What is the future of welfare in Europe? The European welfare state is generally considered to be one of the finest achievements of the post-1945 world. Set up to eradicate poverty by providing a minimum standard of living and social safety net, the welfare state has come under increasing strain fro...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Marin, Bernd, 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. From warfare to welfare adn workfare
  • pt. 2. Demographic metabolism, new measures of age and ageing, and the active ageing index (AAI) 2012-2015
  • pt. 3. Towards a human investment state : future-able education, skill formation, and economic-financial literacy as prerequisites of sustainable welfare society
  • pt. 4. Class, generation, gender, and age cleavages in ageing societies
  • pt. 5. Too sick to work? Disability
  • and happiness
  • in stressful and long-life societies
  • pt. 6. Fragile welfare sustainability : two model cases in point
  • pt. 7. No European social model in Europe
  • or towards a social union?