Editors:
- Compares cases of old and new social risks in the market-based organization of welfare
- Introduces a focus on discursive dimensions of welfare market developments, and on labour market conditions in market-based welfare services
- Draws directly on the new sociology of markets and goes beyond previous volumes in combining market regulatory analysis with the more established forms of welfare policy analysis
Part of the book series: Work and Welfare in Europe (RECOWE)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Mapping the Dynamics of Welfare Markets
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(Re)constructing Welfare Markets
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The Dynamics on the User Side
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The Dynamics of Firms and Employers
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About this book
The book defines welfare markets as politically shaped, regulated and state supported markets that provide social goods and services through the competitive activities of non-state actors. The chapters focus on what happens after states have initiated welfare markets, with equal weight given to the analysis of the agency of state actors and non-state actors in the contraction, stabilisation, and disruption of welfare markets. By focusing the analysis on two cases of welfare markets, private pensions and home-based domestic/care work, the contributions explore and compare the dynamics of different types of markets.
The research will be of use to sociologists and scholars of social policy interested in the social dimension of welfare markets, political scientists and political economists, as well as diverse epistemic communities across the social sciences.
Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Reviews
“This excellent volume explores the emergence of “markets” in pension and care sectors in Europe. The government does not only directly provide services and benefits but also provides incentives and regulations to shape private welfare markets. The volume reveals the intricate politics that take place. This has been an under-studied area in Europe, and this volume fills in that important gap. A must read for anyone interested in the on-going transformation of European welfare states.” (Margarita Estévez-Abe, Co-Director, Center for European Studies, Syracuse University, USA)
"This is an important, innovative, intelligent book about how welfare markets are made and remade in the EU. Integrating insights from sociological theories of markets and marketization, the book’s analytical framework emphasizes the actions of non-state actors – consumers, employers, firms and workers – in welfare market dynamics. This framework, together with the book’s methodologically diverse and empirically rich case studies, offers a strong foundation and clear agenda for future research on welfare marketization, wherever it happens." (Gabrielle Meagher, Macquarie University, Australia)
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Nantes, Nantes, France
Clémence Ledoux
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University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
Karen Shire
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University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Franca van Hooren
About the editors
Clémence Ledoux is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nantes, France, and former Fellow of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Germany.
Karen Shire is Chair of Comparative Sociology at University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Franca van Hooren is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, and former Fellow of the Netherlands Insitute for Advanced Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Dynamics of Welfare Markets
Book Subtitle: Private Pensions and Domestic/Care Services in Europe
Editors: Clémence Ledoux, Karen Shire, Franca van Hooren
Series Title: Work and Welfare in Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56623-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56622-7Published: 04 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56625-8Published: 05 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56623-4Published: 03 February 2021
Series ISSN: 2947-4124
Series E-ISSN: 2947-4132
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 431
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comparative Social Policy, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Social Care, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development