| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 187 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Argument -- Welfare State Under Attack -- Challenge to Modernity -- Postmodern -- Postmodernity? -- Subject of Modernity and Postmodernity -- Modernity and the Discourse of Welfare -- What Follows Deconstruction? -- Past as Another Country -- Present as an Uncertain Place -- Future as Illusion or Possibility -- 2. Subject -- Subject as Socially Constituted -- Virtue of Work -- Consumption and Desire -- Family -- Sexuality -- Identities and Bodies -- Subject as Agent -- Subject of Welfare -- Dependent Subject -- Body and the Gaze -- Interdependent Subject and the Collectivity -- 3. Culture -- Deconstructing Culture -- Culture, Difference and Critique -- Cross-cultural Communication and Racism -- Culture, Art, Politics -- 4. Organization -- Modern Organization -- Postmodern Critique of Bureaucracy -- Modern Expert -- Postmodern Organization -- Politics of Alternative Organization -- 5. Economy -- Discursive Shift -- Globalization -- Flexible Accumulation/Post-Fordism -- Lean Production and Re-engineering -- New Economies and New Social Discourses -- Economy and Welfare -- 6. Politics -- Critical Marxism and Political Action -- Politics Under Postmodern Conditions -- Ethical Judgements Without Rules? -- Social Movements and Social Identity -- Interdependence and Collective Action -- 7. Reconstruction -- Ethics of Reconstruction -- Objectives of Welfare as Emancipation -- Strategies of Resistance and Welfare Building -- State, Party, Difference |
| Summary |
'Postmodern Welfare' places postmodernism firmly on the agenda of contemporary debates about the welfare state. It is the first book to explain systematically the significance of postmodernism for understanding social welfare |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-184) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Welfare state.
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Postmodernism -- Political aspects
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
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Postmodernism -- Political aspects.
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
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Welfare state.
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Postmoderne
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Sozialpolitik
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Spätkapitalismus
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Theorie
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Wohlfahrtsstaat
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Entwicklung
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Verzorgingsstaat.
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Postmodernisme.
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Filosofische aspecten.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
97065514 |
| ISBN |
9780857026057 |
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0857026054 |
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9781446278895 |
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1446278891 |
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0803976097 |
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9780803976092 |
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