Social Security and the Welfare State

1950 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Corson
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
The Welfare State

Le vie cristiane della sicurezza sociale. I cattolici italiani e il welfare state

2013 ◽  
pp. 91-120
Author(s):  
Edoardo Bressan
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
State Model ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Social State ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Christian Socialism ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Welfare State

In Italy, from the 1930s until the end of the century, the relationship between the Catholic world and the development of the Social state becomes a very relevant theme. Social thought and Catholic historiography issues witness a European civilisation crisis, by highlighting problems of poverty and historical forms of assistance. Furthermore, by following the 1931 Pope Pius XI encyclical Quadragesimo anno these issues interacted with fascist corporativism. After 1945, other key experiences arose, as the discussion on social security as the conclusion of the whole public assistance debate shown. These themes are reported in the Bologna social week works in 1949 and in Fanfani's and La Pira's positions, which present several correspondences with British and French worlds, such as Christian socialism, Reinhold Niebuhr's thought and Maritain's remarks. The 1948 Republican Constitution adopts the Welfare State model assumptions, and it is in those very years that the problem of a system based on a universal outlook arose. Afterwards, governments of coalition led by centre and left-wing parties fostered social security through welfare and health reforms until the '80s. While this model falls into crisis, and new social actors begin to be involved in a context of subsidiarity.

Last Rights? Funerals, Poverty and Social Exclusion

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK DRAKEFORD
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Poor People ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Welfare State

This article considers the current state of help with funeral expenses in Britain. It argues that assistance has been progressively and deliberately eroded to the point where the famous ‘from the cradle to the grave’ protection of the welfare state has been removed from increasing numbers of poor people. The article sets these developments within the context of the contemporary British funeral industry, with emphasis upon its treatment of less-well-off consumers. The changing nature of social security provision for funeral expenses is traced in detail, including the actions of the incoming 1997 Labour government. This article investigates the public health role of local authorities in the case of burials, concluding that such services are insufficiently robust to meet the new weight placed upon them. The article ends with a consideration of the impact which these different changes produce in the lives of individuals upon whom they have an effect.

The Case for the Welfare State: From Social Security to Social Equality

1979 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 514
Author(s):  
Thomas Payne ◽  
Norman Furniss ◽  
Timothy Tilton ◽  
Alicia H. Munnell ◽  
Kirsten A. Gronbjerg
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
The Welfare State

scholarly journals Welfare, Work and the Conditions of Social Solidarity: British Campaigns to Defend Healthcare and Social Security

2021 ◽  
pp. 095001702110314
Author(s):  
Genevieve Coderre-LaPalme ◽  
Ian Greer ◽  
Lisa Schulte
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Social Security Benefits ◽  
Community Unionism ◽  
The Welfare State

When the welfare state is under attack from neoliberal reformers, how can trade unionists and other campaigners build solidarity to defend it? Based on 45 qualitative interviews, this article compares campaigns to defend British health services and social security benefits between 2007 and 2016. Building on the macro-insights of comparative welfare-state literature and the more micro-level insights of studies on mobilisation, community unionism and union strategy, it examines the factors that help or hinder the construction of solidarity. This research finds that building solidarity is more difficult when defending targeted benefits than universal ones, not only because of differences in public opinion and political support for services, but also because the labour process associated with targeting benefits, namely the assessing and sanctioning of clients, can generate conflicts among campaigners.

scholarly journals Welfare transformations and expectations of sameness. Living on the margins in Denmark.

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-84
Author(s):  
Camilla Merrild ◽  
Rikke Sand Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Socially Disadvantaged ◽  
Original Intention ◽  
The Welfare State

In Denmark, as in other welfare societies worldwide, the organisation and ideology of welfare are becoming increasingly influenced by neoliberal ideas. In practice, this means that the original intention behind the provision of social support, which was grounded in the notion of social responsibility, is gradually being pushed aside by notions of responsibilisation, with concepts such as deservingness and work ethic appearing to dominate the discourse. Based on long-term fieldwork and interviews conducted with socially disadvantaged Danes living on social security, this article engages with the current debates regarding responsibility and highlights some of the challenges arising from living a life that diverges from what has been termed Danish ‘in-between middle-classness’. We argue that the divergence between the promise of welfare, the current landscape of political regulation and expectations of individual responsibility leads to new forms of uncertainty, as experienced by those who depend on the services provided by the welfare state. One implication of this is that welfare seems to increasingly be tied to an agenda of sameness, whereby citizenship stems less from a imagination of sameness than from an expectation of sameness.

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