Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems (Work and Welfare in Europe) - Hardcover

Book 17 of 20: Work and Welfare in Europe

Panican, Alexandru; Johansson, Håkan

 
9781137531896: Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems (Work and Welfare in Europe)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1137531894 ISBN 13: 9781137531896
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Synopsis

This book analyzes national anti-poverty measures at a local level via a set of unique and up-to-date empirical studies of minimum income support schemes and activation measures in five European cities. In examining this 'local welfare system' approach, it investigates the role that civil society organizations play, and the governance arrangements that prevail in contacts between public and civil society actors in local anti-poverty strategies. The current financial and economic crisis has caused increasing levels of poverty and unemployment, and put national minimum income protection schemes under severe strain. Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems therefore represents a timely and important intervention in the political and scientific debates as to whether more ‘local welfare’ is the solution to the challenges facing European welfare states.










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About the Author

Håkan Johansson is Professor in Social Work at Lund University, Sweden.

Alexandru Panican is Associate Professor in Social Work at Lund University, Sweden.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1137531894
ISBN 13 
9781137531896
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
303
Editor
Johansson Håkan, Panican Alexandru