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Title New life-courses, social risks and social policy in East Asia / edited by Raymond K.H. Chan, Jens O. Zinn and Lih-rong Wang
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Comparative development and policy in Asia series ; 17
Comparative development and policy in Asia series ; 17.
Contents Cover; Title ; Copyright ; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 1 New life courses and social risks: implications for social policy in East Asia; PART I Changes in transitions; 2 Extended transitions to adulthood in Japan: labour market flexibilization and the weakness of social security for young people; 3 Social policies addressing the transition from school to work of post-secondary graduates in Taiwan: a social investment perspective
4 Will dreams come true? The transformation of social inequality structures in Cambodia: experiences of a new generation of youth managing the uncertainties of their life coursePART II Competing demands; 5 Reconciling work and family in Taiwan: problems and policies; 6 The double responsibilities of care in Japan: emerging new social risks for women providing both childcare and care for the elderly; 7 Migrant workers in the new eldercare mix in South Korea; PART III Alternative ways of living; 8 Families at risk: the lived experience of lone mothers in Hong Kong
9 The material contradictions of proletarian patriarchy in South Korea's condensed capitalist industrialization: the instability in the working life course of male breadwinners and its familial ramifications10 Re-employment after retirement: activation strategies for older people in Taiwan; 11 Female individualization and implications on social policy in Hong Kong; PART IV Towards a life-course sensitized social policy; 12 Life-course sensitized policy as risk management: directions and strategies in East Asia; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 23, 2015)
Subject Social conditions.
Social policy.
SUBJECT East Asia -- Social policy
East Asia -- Social conditions
Subject East Asia.
Form Electronic book
Author Chan, Raymond K. H., editor
Zinn, Jens, editor
Wang, Lih-rong, editor
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