Welfare State Capitalst Society: Policies of Retrenchment and Maintenance in Europe, North America and Australia

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First published in 1991. The Welfare State in Capitalist Society, uses a methodological approach that draws extensively on comparative material. It presents an analysis of the fortunes of the modern welfare state in conditions of economic and ideological adversity is able to generate propositions of significance; sweeping masterfully over developments on three continents, it distilling a multiplic