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The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society
Jason Powell Jon (Joe) Hendricks
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The Welfare State
in Post-Industrial Society
A Global Perspective
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JasonPowell Jon(Joe)Hendricks
SchoolofSociology&SocialPolicy OregonStateUniversity
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Contents
PartI RethinkingSocialWelfareinaPost-industrialWorld
1 TheWelfareStateinPost-industrialSociety:TheLay
oftheLand............................................. 3
Jon(Joe)HendricksandJasonL.Powell
2 SocialQualityinPost-industrialSocieties:TheGrowthofMigrant
RemittancesinInternationalSocialWelfare ................... 19
YitzhakBermanandDavidPhillips
3 AginginPost-industrialSocieties:IntergenerationalConflict
andSolidarity........................................... 41
AlexDumasandBryanS.Turner
4 SocialWelfare,Aging,andGlobalizationinaPost-industrial
Society................................................ 57
ChrisPhillipson
5 InSearchofaNewWelfareStateinEurope:AnInternational
Perspective............................................. 71
AntonHemerijck
6 Gender,Marriage,andFamilyinPost-industrialSociety:An
InternationalPerspective .................................. 99
RyanSheppard
7 HealthandHealthCareinPost-industrialSociety............... 125
RobinGauld
8 Post-industrialSocietyandAginginaGlobalWorld:The
DemographicContextofSocialWelfare ...................... 141
JasonL.PowellandCynthiaLeedham
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9 OntheRoadtoWelfareMarkets:Institutional,Organizational,
andCulturalDynamicsofaNewEuropeanWelfareState
Settlement ............................................. 161
IngoBode
PartII SocialWelfareinPost-industrialSocieties:International
Comparisons
10 ANordicWelfareStateinPost-industrialSociety............... 181
JormaSipila¨,AnneliAnttonen,andTeppoKro¨ger
11 CitizenshipandEducationinPost-industrialSocieties............ 201
AntoninWagner
12 EnglandandWales:TheCriminalJusticeSystemin‘Post-industrial
Society’ ............................................... 217
TimOwen
13 Canada:NewIdeologyandSocialAssistanceinPost-industrial
Society................................................ 235
PatriciaM.Daenzer
14 UnitedStates:SocialWelfarePolicyandPrivatization
inPost-industrialSociety.................................. 253
MichaelReisch
15 Australia:ContemporaryIssuesandDebatesontheSocialWelfare
System................................................ 271
MelGrayandKylieAgllias
16 SouthAfricaandPost-industrialism:DevelopmentalSocial
Welfare–APolicyFrameworkforSocialServices
withChildren ........................................... 293
AntoinetteLombard
17 PrivatizationTrendsinWelfareServicesandTheirImpactupon
IsraelasaWelfareState .................................. 311
JosephKatanandArielaLowenstein
18 SouthKorea:BalancingSocialWelfareinPost-industrialSociety.... 333
HyunsookYoon
Index..................................................... 347
Contributors
KylieAgllias SchoolofSocialWork,UniversityofNewcastle,NewSouth
Wales,Australia
AnneliAnttonen DepartmentofSocialResearch,UniversityofTampere,
Tampere,Finland
YitzhakBerman EuropeanCenterforSocialWelfarePolicyandResearch,
Vienna
IngoBode Instituteforsocialpolicyandtheorganisationofsocialservices,
DepartmentofSocialWork,UniversityofKassel,Germany
PatriciaM.Daenzer DepartmentofSocialWork,McMasterUniversity,
Hamilton,Ontario.Canada
AlexDumas FacultyofHealthSciences,UniversityofOttawa,Ontario,
Canada
RobinGauld DepartmentofPreventiveandSocialMedicine,Universityof
Otago,Dunedin,NewZealand
MelGray InstituteofSocialWellbeing,UniversityofNewcastle,NewSouth
Wales,Australia
AntonHemerijck(Eramus) DeanFacultyofSocialSciences,FreeUniversity,
Amsterdam,Netherlands
Jon(Joe)Hendricks OfficeofProvost,OregonStateUniversity,Oregon,USA
HyunsookYoon DepartmentofSocialWelfare,HallymUniversity,South
Korea
JosephKatan SchoolofSocialWork,Tel-AvivUniversity,Tel-Aviv,Israel
TeppoKro¨ger DepartmentofSocialSciencesandPhilosophy,University
ofJyva¨skyla¨,Jyva¨skyla¨,Finland
CynthiaLeedham DepartmentofSociology,UniversityofKentucky,
Kentucky,USA
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AntoinetteLombard SchoolofSocialWork,UniversityofPretoria,Pretoria,
SouthAfrica
ArielaLowenstein CenterforResearch&StudyofAging,FacultyofWelfare&
HealthSciences,TheUniversityofHaifa,Haifa,Israel
DavidPhillips DepartmentofSociologicalStudies,UniversityofSheffield,UK
ChrisPhillipson CentreforSocialGerontology,KeeleUniversity,Keele,
Staffordshire,UK
JasonL.Powell SchoolofSociologyandSocialPolicy,University
ofLiverpool,Liverpool,UK
TimOwen CentreforCriminologyandCriminalJustice,UniversityofCentral
Lancashire,Preston,UK
MichaelReisch SchoolofSocialWork,UniversityofMaryland,Baltimore,MD,
USA
RyanSheppard FacultyofSociology,StOlafCollege,UniversityofThailand,
Thailand
JormaSipila¨ DepartmentofSocialWorkResearch,UniversityofTampere
(until July 31, 2009); Institute for social research, University of Tampere,
Tampere,Finland(fromAugust1,2009)
BryanS.Turner DepartmentofSociology,WellesleyCollege,Wellesley,MA,
USA
AWagner TheNewSchoolforManagementandUrbanPolicy,NewYork
City,USA
Part I
Rethinking Social Welfare
in a Post-industrial World
Chapter 1
The Welfare State in Post-industrial Society:
The Lay of the Land
Jon(Joe)HendricksandJasonL.Powell
Introduction
Tosaythattheworldisafardifferentplacethanitwasjustafewshortdecades
agosoundsatriflebanal.Hasthatnotbeenthecasethroughouthistory?Well,
yes, this is indeed true, but it is our contention that the dynamics of change
underwent a qualitative transformation in the latter half of the twentieth
century.Aswemoveintowhatcanbecalledtheglobalcentury,manyaspects
oflifearechanging,andpost-industrialshiftsareunparalleledbyvirtueofthe
interconnectedness that brings together the far corners of the globe. New
technologies,neweconomicrelationships,newsocialprocesses,andnewpoli-
tical processes are all characteristics of globalization (Hudson & Lowe, 2004:
22).Astheworldhascontracted,people’squalityoflifehaschangedregardless
ofwheretheylive.Infact,thepropagationoffreemarketmind-setsinemerging
economieshascreatedcollectivenetworkconnectionswithconsiderablegood
butpervasiveinequalitiesaswell.Aprincipalgoalofthisvolumeistoexplicate
how these changes are of historical scale, how they are part of what post-
industrial welfare is all about, and how they play out in terms of risks and
inequalitiesshapinghumanexperience.
The Shape of Well-Being and Inequality
Ontheupside,lifeexpectancy,healthstatus,andpercapitaincomeareatanall-
time high and many feudal practices have been relegated to the past. On the
downside,vastnumbersofpeoplestrugglewithpovertyandsignificantpockets
ofpovertyportendmorethanlackofincome.Thoselivingonthebottomofthe
socioeconomic ladder labor under the burden of avoidable, lifestyle diseases,
hungerandrelatedmaladies,nottomentionmyriadsocialrisks.Thoseonthe
upper reaches of the same ladder garner disproportionate shares of the
J.Hendricks(*)
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