Description
Book Synopsis1. Esping--Andersen is a leading authority on the welfare state.2. Offers a completely new theoretical framework for understanding the contemporary welfare state and employment structures.3. Offers a new methodology for the comparative analysis of state and social stratification.4.
Trade Review'This is a pathbreaking book. The author has mastered an extremely wide range of historical and statistical data on modern welfare states and integrated the results of his studies into an original and imaginativee analysis of the dynamics of the three types of welfare state regimes.'
Lee Rainwater 'A milestone in the comparative analysis of welfare policies.' Work, Organizations, and Markets
Table of ContentsForeword.
Introduction.
Part 1: The Three Welfare State Regimes.
1. The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State.
2. De-Commodification in Social Policy.
3. The Welfare State as a System of Stratification.
4. State and Market in the Formation of Pension Regimes.
5. Distribution Regimes in the Power Structure.
Part 2: The Three Employment Structures.
6. Welfare State and Labor Market Regimes.
7. Institutional Accommodation to Full Employment.
8. Three Post-Industrial Employment Trajectories.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.
Index
