Risk and citizenship : key issues in welfare / / edited by Rosalind Edwards and Judith Glover

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• Disciplina: 361.61
• Soggetto topico: Social service; Social policy; Risk management
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: EdwardsRosalind GloverJudith <1949->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Chapter1 Risk, citizenship and welfare: introduction; Chapter 2Social insecurity and social protection; Chapter 3Transparent and messy contracts-how do they serve social security?; Chapter 4Live and let love? Reflections on the unfinished sexual revolution of our times; Chapter 5Widening the scope of social policy: families, financial services and the impact of technology; Chapter 6Complex equalities-redistribution, class and gender ; Chapter 7'Work for those who can, security for those who cannot': a third way in social security reform or fractured social citizenship?Chapter 8Managing the risk of unemployment: is welfare restructuring undermining support for social security?; Chapter 9Managing the body: competing approaches to risk assessment in community care; Chapter 10Social insecurity and the informal economy: survival strategies on a South London estate; Chapter 11Social capital and waves of innovation in the risk society; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Contemporary welfare provision poses serious challenges for social policy. Large and rapid changes are said to be taking place in the way we live, work and relate to each other, characterised by anxiety and insecurity.Risk and Citizenship explores how new and diffrent forms of citizenship are evolving in the context of this 'risk society' and the implications for the development of social policy at both the macro and micro level. This spirited and informed collection of papers by leading analysts addresses key questions related to welfare, citizenship and risk including: the natur
• Titolo autorizzato: Risk and citizenship
• ISBN: 1-134-54883-4; 1-134-54884-2; 1-280-31803-1; 0-203-47068-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996202215203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno