Hostname: page-component-55f67697df-gmt7q Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-05-14T07:44:01.810Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Social Investment, Protection and Inequality within the New Economy and Politics of Welfare in Europe

Part of: SPS Beveridge Report Archive Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2013

Marion Ellison  and
Menno Fenger
Marion Ellison
Affiliation:
Sociology and Social Policy, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh E-mail: mellison@qmu.ac.uk
Menno Fenger
Affiliation:
Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam E-mail: fenger@fsw.eur.nl
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The welfare state is one of the hallmarks of a civilised society. All developed countries have them and the less developed ones are striving to establish their own. Welfare states depend on a fair collection and redistribution of resources, which in turn rests upon the maintenance of trust between different sections of society and across generations. Misleading rhetoric concerning those who have to seek support from the welfare state, such as the contrast between ‘strivers’ and ‘shirkers’, risks undermining that trust and, with it, one of the key foundations of modern Britain. (Alcock et al., 2013)

Keywords

Welfareworkdemocracyinequality‘knowledge economy’
Type
Themed Section on ‘New’ Welfare in Practice: Trends, Challenges and Dilemmas
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , October 2013 , pp. 611 - 624
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Alcock, P. (2013) ‘Benefit cuts and rhetoric undermine a bastion of civilised society’, The Guardian, 27 March.Google Scholar
Beck, U. and Beck-Gernsheim, E. (2001) Individualisation, London: Sage.Google Scholar
Bekkers, V., Dijkstra, G., Edwards, A. and Fenger, M. (eds.) (2007) Governance and the Democratic Deficit: Assessing the Democratic Legitimacy of Governance Practices, Aldershot: Ashgate.Google Scholar
Bell, D. N. F. and Blanchflower, D. G. (2010) ‘Recession and unemployment in the OECD’, CESifo Forum, 11, 1, 14–22.Google Scholar
Berg, O. (2012) ‘Sweden: ambivalent adjustment’, in Clasen, J. and Clegg, D. (eds.), Regulating the Risk of Unemployment: National Adaptations to Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 208–31.Google Scholar
Bredgaard, T., Larsen, F. and Madsen, P. (2009) ‘Flexicurity: in pursuit of a moving target’, European Journal of Social Security, 40, 4, 305–25.Google Scholar
Carlsson, I. (2003) Så Ta¨nkte Jag: Politik och Dramatik [This is How I Thought: Politics and Drama], Stockholm: Hjalmarson & Högberg.Google Scholar
Clark, T. (2013) ‘Britons favour state responsibilities over individualism’, The Guardian, 14 April.Google Scholar
Clarke, J. (2003) ‘Turning inside out? Globalization, neo-liberalism and welfare states’, Anthropological, 45, 2, 201–14.Google Scholar
Clarke, J. (2008) ‘Reconstructing nation, state and welfare: the transformation of welfare states’, in Seeleib-Kaiser, M. (ed.), Welfare State Transformations: Comparative Perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 197–209.Google Scholar
Crisp, R., Batty, E., Cole, I. and Robinson, D. (2009) Work and Worklessness in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Policy Assumptions and Personal Experiences, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.Google Scholar
De Schutter, O. (2013) ‘Freedom from hunger: realising the right to food in the UK’, Lecture by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Doughty Street Chambers, London, 18 February.Google Scholar
Deacon, A. and Patrick, R. (2011) ‘A new welfare settlement? The Coalition government and welfare-to-work’, in Bochel, H. (ed.), The Conservative Party and Social Policy, Bristol: The Policy Press, pp. 161–79.Google Scholar
Dearden, L., Sibieta, L. and Sylva, K. (2010) The Socioeconomic Gradient in Child Outcomes: The Role of Attitudes, Behaviours and Beliefs from Birth to Age 5, Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study, High Wycombe: IFS, www.ifs.org.uk.Google Scholar
Erikson, R. and Goldthorpe, J. (1992) The Constant Flux, Oxford: Clarendon.Google Scholar
Esping-Andersen, G. (1990) The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Cambridge: Polity Press.Google Scholar
Fitzpatrick, S., Pawson, H., Bramley, G. and Wilcox, S. (2012) The Homelessness Monitor: England 2012 Institute for Housing, Urban and Real Estate Research, Edinburgh, York: Heriot-Watt University and Centre for Housing Policy, University of York.Google Scholar
Furlong, A. and Cartmel, F. (2004) Vulnerable Young Men in Fragile Labour Markets, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.Google Scholar
Government of Denmark (1993) Act on Active Labour Market Policy [Lov om en Aktiv Arbejdsmarkedspolitik], 434/1993, Copenhagen: Government of Denmark, www.ft.dk.Google Scholar
Government Offices of Sweden (2011) Swedish National Reform Programme 2011, Stockholm: Government Offices of SwedenGoogle Scholar
Grusky, D. B. and Kricheli-Katz, T. (2012) The New Gilded Age: The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar
Hall, P. A. and Sokice, D. (eds.) (2001) Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hastings, A., Bramley, G., Bailey, N. and Watkins, D. (2012) Serving Deprived Communities in a Recession, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.Google Scholar
Hay, C. (2005) ‘Too important to leave to the economists? The political economy of welfare retrenchment’, Social Policy and Society, 4, 2, 197–205.Google Scholar
Hay, C. and Wincott, D. (2012) European Welfare Capitalism in Hard Times, Basingstoke: Palgrave.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hemerijck, A. (2012) Changing Welfare States, Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Hicks, A. (1999) Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security Politics, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar
Hirsch, D. (2007) Experiences of Poverty and Educational Disadvantage, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.Google Scholar
Kananen, J. (2012) ‘Nordic paths from welfare to workfare: Danish, Swedish and Finnish labour market reforms in comparison’, Local Economy, 27, 5–6, 558–76.Google Scholar
Korpi, W. and Palme, J. (1998) ‘The paradox of redistribution and strategies of equality: welfare state institutions, inequality and poverty in the western countries’, American Sociological Review, 63, 5, 661–87.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Laynard, R., Nickell, S. and Jackman, A. (1991): Unemployment, Macro-Economic Performance and the Labour Market, Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Lindsay, C. (2010) ‘In a lonely place? Social networks, job seeking and the experience of long-term unemployment’, Social Policy and Society, 9, 1, 25–37.Google Scholar
Lister, R. (2004) Poverty, Cambridge: Polity Press.Google Scholar
Lorenz, W. (2005) ‘Social work and a new social order: challenging neo-liberalism's erosion of solidarity society’, Social Work and Society, 3, 1, 93–101.Google Scholar
MacDonald, R., Shildrick, T., Webster, C. and Simpson, D. (2005) ‘Growing up in poor neighbourhoods: the significance of class and place in the extended transitions of “socially excluded” young adults’, Sociology, 39, 5, 873–91.Google Scholar
Mould, C (2013) ‘UK's biggest foodbank charity disturbed by Downing Street's comments on hunger’, press release, The Trussel Trust, 6 February 2013, www.trusselltrust.org/resources/documents/Press/FOODBANK-CHARITY-DISTURBED-BY-DOWNING-STREETS-COMMENTS-ON-HUNGER.pdf.Google Scholar
Newman, J. and Tonkens, E. (eds.) (2011) Participation, Responsibility and Choice: Summoning the Active Citizen in Western Europe, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.Google Scholar
Paull, G. and Patel, T. (2012) An International Review of Skills, Jobs and Poverty, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.Google Scholar
Pintelon, O., Cantillon, B., Van den Bosch, K. and Whelan, C. (2013) ‘The social stratification of social risks: the relevance of class for social investment strategies’, Journal of European Social Policy, 23, 1, 52–67.Google Scholar
Rolfe, H. (2012) ‘Research on the Work Programme’, press release, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, 27 November, www.niesr.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Research%20on%20the%20Work%20Programme.pdf.Google Scholar
Schelkle, W. (2012) Collapsing Worlds and Varieties of Welfare Capitalism: In Search of a New Political Economy of Welfare, LEQS Paper 54/2012, London: London School of Economics.Google Scholar
Schjerva, R. (2012) ‘The Norwegian welfare model – prosperous and sustainable?’, speech at the seminar ‘Portugal's Labour Market: Towards the Nordic Flexicurity Model?’, The Calousete Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 28 November.Google Scholar
Shildrick, T., MacDonald, R., Furlong, A., Roden, J. and Crow, R. (2012) Are Cultures of Worklessness Passed Down Through the Generations?, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.Google Scholar
Shildrick, T., MacDonald, R., Webster, C. and Garthwaite, K. (2013) Poverty and Insecurity: Life in Low-pay, No-pay Britain, Bristol: The Policy Press.Google Scholar
Sinfield, A. (2011) ‘Credit crunch, inequality and social policy’, in Farnsworth, K. and Irving, Z. (eds.), Social Policy in Challenging Times: Economic Crisis and Welfare Systems, Bristol: The Policy Press, pp. 65–81.Google Scholar
Stanley, K., Asta Lohde, L. and White, S. (2004) Sanctions and Sweeteners: Rights and Responsibilities in the Benefits System, London: Institute for Public Policy Research.Google Scholar
Tayor-Gooby, P. (2007) ‘The new welfare settlement in Europe’, European Societies, 10, 1, 3–24.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thompson, R. (2011) ‘Individualisation and social exclusion: the case of young people not in education, employment or training’, Oxford Review of Education, 37, 6, 785–802.Google Scholar