The rollback of the welfare state in advanced industrial democracies is often justified as the inevitable consequence of economic globalization. This reader provides a collection of inter-disciplinary essays by sixteen leading scholars in the field that rebuke the 'inevitability thesis' on welfare state restructuration. Organized in four section - citizenship and global governance, regulating global capital, re-politicizing the retreat of the state and governmentality and the micro-politics of welfare reform - this volume also includes an original essay by the editor assessing the state of critical scholarship on globalization and welfare.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: CITIZENSHIP AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
The Erosion of Citizenship; B.S.Turner
The Sustainability of Welfare: States into the Twenty-First Century; G.Esping-Andersen
Social Politics and Policy in an Era of Globalization: Critical Reflections; N.Yeates
PART II: REGULATING GLOBAL CAPITAL
Some Contradictions of the Welfare State; C.Offe
The Normalizing Role of Rationalist Assumptions in the Institutional Embedding of Neoliberalism; C.Hay
The Transition to Post-Fordism and the Schumpeterian Workfare State; B.Jessop
Welfare State Limits to Globalization; E.Rieger & S.Leibfried
Which Third Way?; T.Brennan
PART III: RE-POLITICIZING THE RETREAT OF THE STATE
The New Politics of the Welfare State; P.Pierson
Shrinking States? Globalization and National Autonomy in the OECD; G.Garrett
Eras of Power; F.Fox Piven & R.A.Cloward
Subject to Suspicion: Feminism and Anti-Statism in Britain; L.Segal
PART IV: GOVERNMENTALITY AND THE MICRO-POLITICS OF WELFARE REFORM
The Death of the Social? Re-Figuring the Territory of Government ; N.Rose
Governing the Unemployed Self in an Active Society; M.Dean
Compliant Subjects for a New World Order: Globalization and the Behaviour Modification Regime of Welfare Reform; S.F.Schram
Political Economies of Scale: Fast Policy, Interscalar Relations, and Neoliberal Workfare; J.Peck
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