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France in crisis : welfare, inequality, and globalization since 1980 / Timothy B. Smith
Bib ID 3327741
Format BookBook
Author
Smith, Timothy B. (Timothy Beresford)
 
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Description New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 
xi, 296 p. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 0521844142
0521605202
Summary

"France is in crisis. In this account, Timothy Smith argues that the French economic and social model is collapsing inward on itself, the result of good intentions, bad policies, and vested interests who employ the rhetoric of "solidarity" to prevent change. French social policy is not redistributive; indeed, Smith argues, the majority of "social" spending serves to strengthen existing inequalities. He shows how politicians, intellectuals, and labor leaders have invoked the specter of "globalization" to explain homegrown problems and delay reform. Professor Smith makes frequent comparisons with the USA, the UK, Canada, Scandinavia, Germany, and the Netherlands, and argues that change need not follow the inegalitarian US or British paths but instead can lead to a more equal society. This is an unusual blend of history, policy analysis, economics, and political commentary and will be indispensable reading for anyone seeking to understand France's current malaise."--BOOK JACKET.

Full contents
  • 1. The misunderstood French welfare state
  • 2. Corporatist welfare states : the residue of the past, or the wave of the future?
  • 3. The "treason of the intellectuals" : globalization as the big excuse for France's economic and social problems
  • 4. France's break with socialism
  • 5. Persisting inequalities
  • 6. The protected people
  • 7. The excluded : immigrants, youth, women
  • 8. The French exception
  • App. Some major pieces of social legislation, France, 1893-2003.
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-290) and index.

Subjects Welfare state -- France.  |  Equality -- France.  |  Socialism -- France.  |  France -- Social policy.  |  France -- Social conditions.  |  France -- Economic policy.  |  France -- Economic conditions.

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