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Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe: The Paradox of Inclusion
Author(s): Joel F. Handler (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: May 24, 2004
- Language: English
- Print length: 330 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521833701
- ISBN-13: 9780521833707
Book Description
Comparing welfare policies in the U.S. and Western Europe aimed at the “workless” population, this study notes that the European labor policies of welfare services offer the best method of bringing the socially excluded back into mainstream society. Despite differences in ideology and practice, Joel Handler argues that there are also significant similarities between the U.S. and the Europeans, especially in field-level practices that serve to exclude the most vulnerable. The author examines strategies for reform and concludes with an argument for a basic income guarantee.
