Divisions of Welfare: A Critical Introduction to Comparative Social Policy

By Norman Ginsburg

Ginsburg′s compelling new volume presents a critical and comparative appraisal of social policy in four advanced capitalist countries: Sweden, Germany, Britain, and the United States. By integrating class, race, and gender perspectives into social policy analysis, the book illuminates the impact of welfare measures on these divisions. Ginsburg outlines the major social policy developments in each state since the 1930s, concentrating particularly on the restructuring since the world recession of the mid-1970s. He systematically addresses five crucial points in each state′s welfare provision: policy ideology and welfare expenditure; income maintenance policies and outcomes; race and racial inequalities; women and family policies; and the health care system. In all four states, Ginsburg argues, social policy has contributed to a widening of gender, race, and class divisions. This lively and informative study of social policy in western industrialized societies will be essential reading for students of social policy, social administration, public administration, applied sociology, and political science. "Aimed at the student market, Ginsburg′s book provides a useful study of social provision in Britain, Sweden, the US and West Germany..." --Durrant′s

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803984413
• ISBN13: 9780803984417
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"