Kim, M. M. S. Comparative welfare capitalism in East Asia: Productivist models of social policy. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 172 pp. ISBN 978-1-1137-47184-0.

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Ilcheong Yi
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Vaishali Singh

Mason M.S. Kim, Comparative Welfare Capitalism in East Asia: Productivist Models of Social Policy. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 172 pp., $81.80– $95.00, ISBN: 9781137471840 (Hardbound).


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Robert Pinker

In this chapter, Robert Pinker discusses T.H. Marshall's concern with welfare pluralism, his study of citizenship and welfare, and his contribution to the development of social policy and administration. He begins with an overview of Marshall's achievement in the field of sociology and some of his major works such as Sociology at the Crossroads and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century, along with the essays entitled ‘Value Problems of Welfare-Capitalism’ and ‘Citizenship and Social Class’. Pinker continues by analysing Marshall's thoughts on the relationship between the inequalities of class and the prospective equality of citizenship and his argument that collectivist social services contribute to the maintenance and enhancement of social welfare so long as such interventions do not subvert the operation of the system of competitive markets. Pinker concludes with an assessment of Marshall's views on social and political rights, the problem of poverty, and the concept of ‘democratic-welfare-capitalism’.


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