Narrative care : biopolitics and the novel by De Boever, Arne

Table of Contents: “…Coetzee's Slow man as "a biologico-literary experiment" -- A novel of care -- The welfare state -- From pastoral care to biopolitics -- Elizabeth Costello's "biologico-literary experiment" -- The politics of companionship -- Bare life and the camps in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go -- Exploding care -- Biopolitics in Never let me go -- The novel as a camp -- Aesthetics of existence -- Life-writing in Paul Auster's The book of illusions -- Creation and destruction -- Life-stories (Sadism and the novel) -- The inner life of Martin Frost -- History's remains -- "Just being": on Tom McCarthy's Remainder -- Very little, almost nothing -- The pharmacology of re-enactment -- "Strategy of the real" -- The re-enactment of the novel (Re-enactment and politics) -- Synecdoche, New York -- Conclusion: Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to her as a narrative of care -- Narrative coma -- Care and gender -- Rebellions of care.…”
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Habermas and European integration : social and cultural modernity beyond the nation-state by Grewal, Shivdeep

Table of Contents: “…Front matter; Dedication; Contents; Figures and tables; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Modernity, welfare state and EUtopia; Part I: Social modernity; Habermas on European integration; Metatheory; Integration theory; Democratic theory; Part II: Cultural modernity; Rationalisation; Neoconservatism; Cartographies of disenchantment; Part III: Empirical research; The conceptual landscape of the Constitutional Convention; Conclusion: An unfinished project?…”
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Gender, politics and institutions : towards a feminist institutionalism

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Gender, Politics, and Institutions; 2 Gender and Institutions of Political Recruitment: Candidate Selection in Post-Devolution Scotland; 3 Discursive Strategies for Institutional Reform: Gender Quotas in Sweden and France; 4 Gendered Institutions and Women's Substantive Representation: Female Legislators in Argentina and Chile; 5 Gendering the Institutional Reform of the Welfare State: Germany, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.…”
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Leviathan on the Right : how big-government conservatism brought down the Republican revolution by Tanner, Michael, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…I: From oxymoron to governing philosophy -- Big government: it isn't just for liberals anymore -- The roots of big-government conservatism -- Proving Lord Acton correct -- II: Big-government conservatism in action -- Learning to love the welfare state -- National health care lite -- Blinking at the entitlements crisis -- Spending like drunken democrats -- A national school board -- Power to the president -- National busybodies -- III: Defining the future -- The small-government alternative -- The coming debate.…”
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Dismantling Canada : Stephen Harper's new conservative agenda by Jeffrey, Brooke

Table of Contents: “…Shrinking government : the economic agenda -- Restoring order : the domestic agenda -- Taking a stand : the foreign-policy agenda -- Dismantling the welfare state : the Open Federalism agenda -- Abandoning Quebec: the national-unity agenda -- Rebranding Canada: the real conservative agenda -- Conclusion.…”
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The vertical mosaic revisited

Table of Contents: “…Power, ethnicity, and class: reflections thirty years after The vertical mosaic / Wallace Clement -- Ethnicity and race in social organization: recent developments in Canadian society / Raymond Breton -- Missing women: a feminist perspective on The vertical mosaic / Pat Armstrong -- Three decades of elite research in Canada: John Porter's unfulfilled legacy / Michael Ornstein -- Social justice, social citizenship, and the welfare state, 1965-1995: Canada in comparative context / Julia S. …”
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Hidden laws : how state constitutions stabilize American politics by Woodward-Burns, Robinson

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking American constitutional development -- First conventions, 1760-1791 -- Antebellum consensus, 1792-1849 -- State reconstruction, 1850-1877 -- Progressive experimentation, 1878-1931 -- Welfare states, 1932-1979 -- Contemporary constitutionalism, 1980-2020 -- Appendix A: State constitutional revision assemblies, 1776-2020 -- Appendix B: State constitutions and the Declaration of Independence, January-July 1776 -- Appendix C: State constitutional slavery and Reconstruction clauses, 1776-1877.…”
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In search of progressive America

Table of Contents: “…Bacevich -- America's encounter with immigrants / Gary Gerstle -- The media obstacle / Todd Gitlin -- Think tanks and the war of ideas in American politics / Andrew Rich -- From incremental to transformative change / Ezra Klein -- Rebuilding the welfare state in the United States / Dean Baker -- Families valued / Karen Kornbluh -- How labor can win / Nelson Lichtenstein -- The once and future Christian left / Michael Kazin.…”
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Rise of Big Government. by Vatter, Harold G.

Table of Contents: “…The Rise of the American Welfare State""; ""Chapter Six. International Influences and the Expanding American Role""; ""Chapter Seven. …”
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Disability and care work : state, society and invisible lives by Chakravarti, Upali

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Sage historypage; Halftitle page; Marketing page; Fulltitle page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Part 1; 1 Introduction; 2 Framing Disability; Part 2; 3 Making Sense of the Narratives I; 4 Making Sense of the Narratives II; 5 Making Sense of the Narratives III; Part 3; 6 State, Society and Disability in India; 7 The Welfare State as Paternalistic Caregiver; 8 Conclusion; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INDEX…”
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In search of progressive America

Table of Contents: “…Bacevich -- America's encounter with immigrants / Gary Gerstle -- The media obstacle / Todd Gitlin -- Think tanks and the war of ideas in American politics / Andrew Rich -- From incremental to transformative change / Ezra Klein -- Rebuilding the welfare state in the United States / Dean Baker -- Families valued / Karen Kornbluh -- How labor can win / Nelson Lichtenstein -- The once and future Christian left / Michael Kazin.…”
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An Introduction to Politics, State and Society : an Introduction to Politics, State and Society. by McAuley, J.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Introduction: Politics, State and Society; Section I: Politics, Power, Political Legitimacy and the State; 1: Founding Arguments: Theorizing Politics, Power and the State; 2: Legitimacy and Power in the United Kingdom; Section II: Society and the State; 3: (Re)defining Politics: Neoliberalism and the State; 4: The Politics of Welfare and the Welfare State; 5: Northern Ireland, Political Violence and the Politics of Terrorism; Section III: The Future of Politics and the State; 6: Post-industrialism and the End of Politics?…”
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The end of tolerance : racism in 21st century Britain by Kundnani, Arun

Table of Contents: “…Sivanandan; Introduction; 1 Echoes of Empire; 2 From Dependency to Displacement; 3 Seeds of Segregation; 4 We Are Here Because You Are There; 5 Asylum and the Welfare State; 6 The Dialectics of Terror; 7 The Halabja Generation; 8 Integrationism: The Politics of Anti-Muslim Racism; 9 Migration and the Market-state; 10 Here to Stay; 11 The New Leviathan; 12 Community: Theirs and Ours; Notes to the Text; Index.…”
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New modes of governance in activation policies. 1

Table of Contents: “…; Re-activating the Nordic welfare states: do we find a distinct universalistic model?…”
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Realising Participation : Elderly People as Active Users of Health and Social Care. by Roberts, Kathryn

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Tilte -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 User Participation in the Welfare State -- 3 The Policy Concept…”
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Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia : the limits of political ambition?

Table of Contents: “…: childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia / Anette Borchorst -- The claim of economic citizenship : the concept of equality in a historical context / Christina Carlsson Wetterberg and Kari Melby -- Married women's right to pay taxes : debates on gender, economic citizenship, and tax law reform in Denmark, 1945-83 / Anna-Birte Ravn -- Family policy between science and politics / Åsa Lundqvist -- Academic discourse, social policy, and the construction of new families / Christine Roman -- The 'new father' : gender equality as discursive resource for family policies / Trine Annfelt -- From powerful to powerless fathers : gender equality in Danish family policies on parenthood / Charlotte Andersen and Anna-Birte Ravn -- Dilemmas on citizenship : tensions between gender equality and cultural diversity in the Danish welfare state / Birte Siim -- Women friendly? : understanding gendered racism in Sweden / Diana Mulinari -- Young women's attitudes towards feminism and gender equality / Ann-Dorte Christensen -- A Scandinavian feminist public sphere : discourses on feminism and gender equality / Christina Fiig -- Gender, citizenship, and social justice in the Nordic welfare states : a view from the outside / Ruth Lister -- Future research on gender equality in the Scandinavian countries / Keith Pringle.…”
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Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia : the limits of political ambition?

Table of Contents: “…: childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia / Anette Borchorst -- The claim of economic citizenship : the concept of equality in a historical context / Christina Carlsson Wetterberg and Kari Melby -- Married women's right to pay taxes : debates on gender, economic citizenship, and tax law reform in Denmark, 1945-83 / Anna-Birte Ravn -- Family policy between science and politics / Åsa Lundqvist -- Academic discourse, social policy, and the construction of new families / Christine Roman -- The 'new father' : gender equality as discursive resource for family policies / Trine Annfelt -- From powerful to powerless fathers : gender equality in Danish family policies on parenthood / Charlotte Andersen and Anna-Birte Ravn -- Dilemmas on citizenship : tensions between gender equality and cultural diversity in the Danish welfare state / Birte Siim -- Women friendly? : understanding gendered racism in Sweden / Diana Mulinari -- Young women's attitudes towards feminism and gender equality / Ann-Dorte Christensen -- A Scandinavian feminist public sphere : discourses on feminism and gender equality / Christina Fiig -- Gender, citizenship, and social justice in the Nordic welfare states : a view from the outside / Ruth Lister -- Future research on gender equality in the Scandinavian countries / Keith Pringle.…”
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Valuing Care Work : Comparative Perspectives. by Benoit, Cecilia

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The construction of equality : Syriac immigration and the Swedish city by Mack, Jennifer (Writer on architecture)

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Harnessing labour confrontation : shaping the postwar settlement in Canada, 1943-1950 by McInnis, Peter S. (Peter Stuart), 1958-

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Workers in hard times : a long view of economic crises

Table of Contents: “…Palmer -- Working people's responses to past depressions / David Montgomery -- Soviet workers and stalinist terror : the crisis of industrialization / Wendy Goldman -- The labor of capitalism: industrial revolution and the transformation of the global cotton-growing countryside / Sven Beckert -- The ordeal of Eugene Debs : the panic of 1893, the Pullman strike, and the origins of the progressive movement / Scott Reynolds Nelson -- Workers' social-wage struggles during the great depression and the era of neoliberalism : international comparisons / Alvin Finkel -- Politics and policies in the 1970s and early twenty-first century : the linked recessions / Judith Stein -- Neoliberalism at work in the antipodean welfare state in the late twentieth century : collusion, collaboration, and resistance / Melanie Nolan -- Want amidst plenty : the oil boom and the working class in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1992-2010 / Sean Cadigan -- Whose hard times? …”
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Harnessing labour confrontation : shaping the postwar settlement in Canada, 1943-1950 by McInnis, Peter S. (Peter Stuart), 1958-

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Workers in hard times : a long view of economic crises

Table of Contents: “…Palmer -- Working people's responses to past depressions / David Montgomery -- Soviet workers and stalinist terror : the crisis of industrialization / Wendy Goldman -- The labor of capitalism: industrial revolution and the transformation of the global cotton-growing countryside / Sven Beckert -- The ordeal of Eugene Debs : the panic of 1893, the Pullman strike, and the origins of the progressive movement / Scott Reynolds Nelson -- Workers' social-wage struggles during the great depression and the era of neoliberalism : international comparisons / Alvin Finkel -- Politics and policies in the 1970s and early twenty-first century : the linked recessions / Judith Stein -- Neoliberalism at work in the antipodean welfare state in the late twentieth century : collusion, collaboration, and resistance / Melanie Nolan -- Want amidst plenty : the oil boom and the working class in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1992-2010 / Sean Cadigan -- Whose hard times? …”
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The Welfare System and the Social Lifeworld : Paradox and Agency in the Policy Process. by Rodger, John J.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Part 1: Social Welfare as an Autopoietic System -- Introduction -- System Integration and Social Integration -- The Paradox of the Welfare State -- Outline of the Book -- Chapter One -- The Semantics of the Enlightenment and Luhmann's Anti-Humanism -- The Differentiation of Society and Human Rights -- Civilising and De-civilising Tendencies in the Differentiated Society -- The Social Policy Context of British Social Welfare -- Concluding Comments -- Chapter Two -- Introduction -- Financialisation -- The Active Citizen and the Civil Society Strategy -- The New Philanthropists as the Conscience of New Capitalism -- The Colonisation of the Social Lifeworld -- Concluding Comments -- Chapter Three -- Introduction -- Michael Lipsky's Perspective on Street-Level Bureaucracy -- The Client-Processing Mentality -- Applying Lipsky's Perspective -- Karl Weick's Theory of Sensemaking in Complex Organisations -- Recursivity in the theories of Weick and Luhmann -- Concluding Comment -- Part 2: The Social Lifeworld in a Society of Autopoietic Systems -- Chapter Four -- Introduction -- Habermas's Discourse Theory of Law -- The Political Public Sphere -- Lay Morality and the Social Lifeworld -- The Mass Media System -- Concluding Comments -- Chapter Five -- Introduction -- Homines Aperti -- The Managed Heart -- The Paradox of Social Work and Social Care -- Resolving the Paradoxical Nature of Social Work -- Law's Authoritative Voice in Social Work -- Concluding Comments -- Chapter Six -- Introduction -- Titmuss and the Principles of the Modern Welfare State -- The Social Lifeworld and the Degeneration of Civility -- Compassion and the Proximity Principle -- Concluding Comments -- Chapter Seven -- Reviewing the Argument -- Theoretical Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The challenge of right-wing nationalist populism for social work a human rights approach

Table of Contents: “…Citizenship, populism and social work in the Finnish welfare state…”
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Reinventing gender and the professions : new governance, equality and diversity

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Gender, professions and public policy: new directions; Unpacking gendered professional power in the welfare state; Nursing careers in France and Britain: age-related policy matters; Reconfiguring Finnish welfare service workforce; Gendering social work in Russia: towards anti-discriminatory practices; Gendering migration flows: physicians and nurses in Portugal; Who staffs the US leaning tower? …”
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Caring for the elderly in Japan and the US : practices and policies

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Assuring care: government policies and programs; Cultural meanings of ~security~ in aging policies; The socioeconomic context of Japanese social policy for aging; From the New Deal to the new millennium: bridging the gap in US aging and health policy; Changing meanings of frail old people and the Japanese welfare state; Critical issues in health care for the US elderly: beyond the millennium; Providing care: professional caregivers.…”
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Independent Futures : Creating User-Led Disability Services in a Disabling Society. by Barnes, Professor Colin

Table of Contents: “…Cover; INDEPENDENT FUTURES -- Creating user-led disability services in a disabling society; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on the authors; ONE -- Examining user-led services; TWO -- Traditional approaches: disability policy and the welfare state; THREE -- Disability activism and the struggle for independent living; FOUR -- Researching user-led organisations; FIVE -- User-led organisations: building an alternative approach; SIX -- Service design and delivery: opportunities and constraints; SEVEN -- Service users' views and experiences; EIGHT -- Politics and campaigning.…”
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Politics and Society in Western Europe. by Lane, Jan-Erik

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction: A Neo-Tocquevillean Approach; Part I: Civil Society; 1 -- The Market Economy; 2 -- Cleavages; 3 -- Political Parties; 4 -- Parties and Voters; 5 -- Party Systems; Part II: Government; 6 -- Decision-Making Institutions: Autonomy; 7 -- Decision-Making Systems: Influence; 8 -- European Integration; 9 -- Issues; Part III: Outcomes; 10 -- Political Stability; 11 -- Public Sector Growth and the Welfare State; 12 -- Conclusion; References; Index.…”
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Fair trade and a global commodity : coffee in Costa Rica by Luetchford, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Approaching fair trade : coffee in Costa Rica -- Creating cooperatives : the welfare state, coffee, and fair trade in Costa Rica -- Sowing progress and contesting development in the Tilarán highlands -- Farming for the global economy : 'playing' and 'juggling' in the market -- Landowners and labourers : uncertainties, strategies, and tensions in the labour process -- Working nature, working the market : sustainability and organic agriculture -- Envisioning autarky : the family and the farm -- Civil society : local development and the limits of government -- Creating and contesting value : the Earth, labour and exchange -- Conclusion: Fair trade and moral economies.…”
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Politics and Social Theory. by Lassman, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Politics and Social Theory; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: Politics and Social Theory; 2 Vocabularies of the State; 3 Marxism, Democracy and the Public Sphere; 4 Class Analysis as Social Theory; 5 States, Populations and Productivity: Towards a Political Theory of Welfare States; 6 Foucault: Power and Politics; 7 Women, Welfare and the Politics of Need Interpretation; 8 Socialism as a Sociological Problem; 9 Postmodernity and Contemporary Social Thought; Index.…”
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Post-industrial labour markets : profiles of North America and Scandinavia

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Labour movement and industrial relations; 3 Labour law and employment regulation; 4 The welfare state and labour market policies; 5 Labour force and employment: age and gender differences; 6 Towards a post-industrial service society; 7 Occupational changes and education; 8 Patterns of unemployment; 9 Flexibility and employment insecurity; 10 Wage formation, institutions and unemployment; 11 Post-industrial profiles; Notes; References; Index.…”
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The making of modern English society from 1850 by Roebuck, Janet

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Series Editor's Preface; Contents; Plates; Figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: the Changing Shape of Society; Chapter 2 The Structure of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Society; Chapter 3 The Later Nineteenth Century: Society in Flux; Chapter 4 The Edwardian Years; Chapter 5 The War Machine; Chapter 6 The Interwar Years and Social Readjustments; Chapter 7 War and Welfare State; Chapter 8 The Structure of Mid-Twentieth-Century Society; Figures; Bibliography; Index…”
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Independent Futures : Creating User-Led Disability Services in a Disabling Society. by Barnes, Professor Colin

Table of Contents: “…Cover; INDEPENDENT FUTURES -- Creating user-led disability services in a disabling society; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on the authors; ONE -- Examining user-led services; TWO -- Traditional approaches: disability policy and the welfare state; THREE -- Disability activism and the struggle for independent living; FOUR -- Researching user-led organisations; FIVE -- User-led organisations: building an alternative approach; SIX -- Service design and delivery: opportunities and constraints; SEVEN -- Service users' views and experiences; EIGHT -- Politics and campaigning.…”
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When government helped : learning from the successes and failures of the New Deal

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Public Attitudes Toward Government; 2 A Tale of Two Crises; 3 The Bottom-Up Recovery; 4 A Decade of Dissent; 5 Labor Militance and the New Deal; 6 The New Deal's Direct Job-Creation Strategy; 7 The New Deal and the Creation of an American Welfare State; 8 The Democratization of Culture; 9 The Rightful Heritage of All; 10 New Deal Agricultural Policy; 11 Conclusion; Index.…”
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Sri Lanka in the Modern Age : a history by Wickramasinghe, Nira

Table of Contents: “…The post-independence years : political cultures -- Citizens, communities, rights, constitutions, 1947-2000 -- The search for equality : the left movement and insurrections -- The search for sovereignty : Tamil separatism/nationalism -- Sri Lanka : the welfare state and beyond -- 'Only a great land wounded' : the end of the war -- The post-war state : the making of oppressive stability.…”
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US government. 21, RT1 - Barr

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US government. 21, RT1 - Tanner

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Balancing change and tradition in global education reform

Table of Contents: “…Turkey: Innovation and Tradition; Chapter 8. Sweden: A Welfare State in Transition.…”
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State, class and bureaucracy : Canadian unemployment insurance and public policy by Pal, Leslie A., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Unemployment Insurance and Policy Analysis -- PART ONE: HISTORY -- 2 Unemployment Insurance in the Welfare State -- 3 Unemployment Insurance in Canada -- PART TWO: THREE THEORIES -- 4 Capital v. …”
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