1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910595890703321

Autore

Walter, Paul Alfred Francis

Titolo

The social sciences : a problem approach / Paul A. F. Walter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : D. Van Nostrand Co., 1949

Descrizione fisica

VII, 357 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

300

Locazione

FGBC

Collocazione

XV N 284

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910556096803321

Autore

Giomi Fabio

Titolo

Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe / / edited by Fabio Giomi, Célia Keren, Morgane Labbé

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2022

Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom : , : Routledge, , 2022

ISBN

1-00-327545-1

1-000-59237-5

1-003-27545-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 pages)

Collana

Routledge Open History

Disciplina

361.94

Soggetti

Public welfare

Social service

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Sommario/riassunto

Since the 1980s, neoliberals have openly contested the idea that the state should protect the socio-economic well-being of its citizens, making 'privatization' their mantra. Yet, as historians and social scientists have shown, welfare has always been a 'mixed economy', wherein private and public actors dynamically interacted, collaborating or competing with each other in the provision of welfare services. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of welfare by developing three innovative approaches. Firstly, it illuminates the productive nature of public/private entanglements. Far from amounting to a zero-sum game, the interactions between the two sectors have changed over time what welfare encompasses, its contents and targets, often engendering the creation of new fields of intervention. Secondly, this book departs from a well-established tradition of comparison between Western nation-states by using and mixing various scales of analysis (local, national, international and global) and by covering case studies from Spain to Poland and France to Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thirdly, this book goes beyond state centrism in welfare studies by bringing back a host of public and private actors, from municipalities to international organizations, from older charities to modern NGOs.