Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States: United Germany in Perspective
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 1/5/2010
EAN 9780521003520, ISBN10: 0521003520
Paperback, 396 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States is the English-language adaptation of one of the most important contributions to welfare economics published in recent years. Professors Leibfried and Leisering offer a time-based (dynamic) analysis of the study of poverty, and suggest the need for a radical re-think of conventional theoretical and policy approaches. The core of this study is the empirical analysis of the life course of recipients of 'Social Assistance' in Germany, although the conclusions are put into a wider context of socio-economic and socio-political analysis and comparative observations are made with other countries, notably the USA. Time, Life and Poverty will be of interest to upper-level students, researchers and policy-makers in a wide range of social science disciplines, including: economics, social policy, sociology, psychology and European studies.
Preface R. Dahrendorf
Part I. The Welfare State and the Life Course Passages Through Poverty
1. Poverty in the welfare state
the life-course approach
2. Life course as politics
Part II. Poverty in the Life Course
The Dynamics of Social Decline and Ascent
3. Objective time
how long do people claim social assistance?
4. Subjective time
how social assistance is perceived and evaluated
5. Living time
poverty careers between exclusion and integration
6. Institutionalised time
does social assistance create dependency?
Part III. Poverty and Social Change Debates and Policies
7. Between denial and dramatisation
images of poverty in postwar Germany
8. Disruption and continuity in life courses
poverty in unified Germany
9. Increasingly dynamic? The impact of social change on social assistance dynamics
Part IV. Poverty and Society
Towards a New Welfare State?
10. Time and poverty
towards a new picture of poverty and social exclusion
11. Paths out of poverty
perspectives on active policy
12. Social inequality in transition
13. Individual lives and the welfare state - recasting the German welfare regime.