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The State of Welfare Comparative Studies of the Welfare State at the End of the Long Boom, 1965-1980

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

The State of Welfare Comparative Studies of the Welfare State at the End of the Long Boom, 1965-1980

By Erik Eklund, Melanie Oppenheimer, Joanne Scott

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The period after 1945 saw a rapid growth in social welfare, with the state taking on increasing responsibility for pensions, health care, unemployment relief and income support. In Western democracies economic growth underpinned state investment and was reinforced by demands from the new social movements of the 1960s. Just as the clamour for reformism reached a crescendo in the late 1960s, the global economy began to falter, culminating in the oil crisis of 1973-1974. This volume explores the f...Show more

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9781787071032

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Peter Lang

Published year

2018

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1

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The State of Welfare Comparative Studies of the Welfare State at the End of the Long Boom, 1965-1980

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Paperback

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