The Welfare State in Post-industrial Society: The Lay of the Land

2009 ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Hendricks ◽  
Jason L. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Welfare State

The Israeli Welfare State at Crossroads

1985 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Doron
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Israeli Society ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Welfare State

ABSTRACTThe paper deals with the evolution of the welfare state in Israel and the impact it has had on the structure of Israeli society. It outlines the major phases of its development and stresses the social and political forces that shaped the process of trial and error in which these have evolved. The achievements and limits of the Israeli welfare state are analysed in the context of its particular circumstances as a developing industrial society that has also to cope with the integration of its various ethnic immigrant groups and with maintaining the morale of the population in face of the continuous threat to its national security. In conclusion the paper reviews the roots of the current crisis and outlines the possible strategies to deal with it, within the framework of Israeli society and in an international perspective.

How Not to Aim the Camera Downward. Representing the Feminized Working Poor

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olympia Contopidis
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Working Poor ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Artistic Representations ◽  
Feminine Ideals ◽  
Post War ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Welfare State

The identity of the working-class woman is a particularly precarious one, as stereotypical western feminine ideals are not associated with any of the archetypical trades of the working class, which has instead embodied the masculine ideal of the manual, industrial labourer. In this essay, I argue how the struggle of working-class femininity extends to gender roles of the (former) working class more generally, investigating how this becomes apparent in photographic representations of council housing communities in contemporary art, taking Richard Billingham’s body of work Ray’s a Laugh (1996) and LaToya Ruby Frazier’s work The Notion of the Family (2001-14) as case studies. Both Billingham’s and Frazier’s work deal with the identity of the working poor from the inside: they represent the decline of the working class and the demise of blue-collar communities, lacking investment and falling prey to the dismantling of the welfare state. The image of the post-war, post-industrial (and post-feminist) underemployed female has been analysed principally by sociologists and media studies researchers in relation to reality TV programmes, which produce and represent the working class female body as abject. I will therefore employ cultural theory as well as sociological research studies by Beverly Skegg, Imogen Tyler, and Angela McRobbie to identify stereotypes of working-class femininity in visual culture to then assess their relationship to lens-based artistic representations of the working class. The analysis of working-class masculinity and its place in the post-industrial, precarious labour market has been even more limited especially regarding art (let alone photography), with the exception of Angela Dimitrakaki’s essay "Masculinity, Art, and Value Extraction" (2019). The article draws on her discussion as well as on Norbert Trenkle’s "The Rise and Fall of the Working Man" (2008) to investigate Frazier’s and Billingam’s depictions of male family members and show how the decline of the working class, through deindustrialisation, precarisation, and the dismantling of the welfare state, has impacted the image of working-class masculinity.

Fulfilling basic human needs: the welfare state after Beveridge

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Diamond
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Welfare State

Traditional welfare states with their origins in the Beveridge report of 1942 have struggled to respond adequately to new structural pressures and challenges that have arisen in the advanced economies over the last seventy years, especially in Britain. These include changes in demography and the structure of family life, alongside the emergence of a post-industrial economy marked by the loss of skilled manufacturing employment and regions of the UK adversely impacted by the process of deindustrialisation. As the pressures on the welfare state have increased, so existing social security systems have struggled to address a diversity of unmet human needs. The purpose of this chapter is to consider the implications of these changes for contemporary social policy in the developed capitalist countries, paying particular attention to the policy landscape in the UK in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and austerity. The chapter addresses why the crisis and great recession have not led to a more radical recalibration of policy, and examines the emerging models of ‘relational welfare’ that seek to respond to a series of criticisms of the role of states and markets in welfare provision.

Speaking Notes With the Bishop of London on how and why the Church might be losing its nerve and its role in the modern society

1982 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghiţa Ionescu
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Welfare State

THE FUTURE OF MODERN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY APPEARS TO depend on the amount of political participation, i.e. on how much its individuals will have to participate in political interests and activities. To be sure, the way industrial society functions requires an increasing involvement of the individual in public activities. But is there a danger that the private lives and aspirations of all individuals will be increasingly absorbed by the ‘public cause’? And that the Church, the intellectuals, the artists, the trade unions, and last but not least, the media might become transmission-belts of the ideological-political organizations?The welfare state gives in principle a due primacy to man's free choice of how to fulfil himself, for himself and not by the state and for the state. But within the welfare state, which could continue this balancing act, which is this balancing act, it is the individuals themselves who seem now to be more and more attracted, for stark economic reasons, but also because of ideological fallacies by the ‘external goods’ rather than by the ontological and interiorized raison d'être. Are we witnessing the transformation of the real man into the citizen, or comrade, of man into fan?

scholarly journals Socially Oriented Non-Profit Organizations in the Welfare State

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-55
Author(s):  
Liga Ekaterina M. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Emergence Of Institutions ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
The Welfare State

In recent years, the rapid development of the institutions of self-organization of citizens emerging and existing in various forms actualizes the issues related to their emergence and role in the implementation of social policy. This type of organization whose task was to provide social assistance and support to social risk groups has become the subject of scientific discussions and research in recent years. Scientists focus on various aspects and directions of development of the welfare state, forms of implementation, models of social policy, factors that determine its evolution, which includes the formation, flourishing and entry into an era of crisis. The purpose of the study is to consider the evolution of the welfare state as the basis for the emergence of institutions of self-organization of citizens. The methodological basis of the study is formed by the concepts of post-industrial society, which made it possible to consider the emergence and evolution of institutions of self-organization of citizens as a reflection of the processes taking place in society, to determine their place and role in the state of general welfare. A historical approach was also used, which made it possible to analyze the stages of the emergence of socially-oriented non-profit organizations (SO NPOs), the forms of their involvement in the social policy of the state; a method for identifying cause-and-effect relationships, which made it possible to identify factors that influence the interaction of SO NPOs and the state. This article describes the activities of various forms of the welfare state in the field of social protection of the population. We highlighted the positions on the problem of the emergence of institutions of self-organization of citizens in scientific thought and analyzed the reasons for the emergence of SO NPOs. The conclusion was drawn that it was the evolution of the welfare state that became the basis for the emergence of institutions of self-organization of citizens. Keywords: social structure, types of welfare state, institution of citizens’ self-organization, confrontation, rivalry, social policy, socially oriented non-profit organizations – SO NPOs

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