After Austerity
After Austerity European welfare states are undergoing profound change, driven by globalization, technical changes, and population ageing. This book examines welfare state transformations across a…
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After Austerity
European welfare states are undergoing profound change, driven by globalization, technical changes, and population ageing. This book examines welfare state transformations across a representative range of European countries and at the EU level, and considers likely new directions in social policy. More immediately, the aftermath of the Great Recession and unprecedented levels of immigration have imposed additional pressures.
Tensions surrounding divisions between old and young, women and men, immigrants and denizens, and between the winners in a new, more competitive, world and those who feel left behind are becoming steadily It reviews the dominant neo-liberal austerity response and discusses social investment, fightback, welfare chauvinism, and protectionism.It argues that the class solidarities and cleavages that shaped the development of welfare states are no longer powerful.