While the first half of the 20th century was characterized by total war, the second half witnessed, at least in the Western world, a massive expansion of the modern welfare state. A growing share of the population was covered by ever more generous systems of social protection that dramatically...

Machine generated contents note: -- Part I. Varieties of Liberalism and the early welfare state: UK, Germany, and Japan -- 1. Liberalism and the welfare state in Britain, 1880-1945 -- Roger Backhouse, Bradley Bateman, and Tamotsu Nishizawa -- 2. New liberalism to the new right: economists and...

This book argues that the Japanese social protection system should be understood as a system of "welfare through work," where employment protection has functionally substituted for income maintenance. - Publisher's Web site

Yongha Kim/Gyorgy Szell (eds.) Economic Crisis and Social Integration PETER LANG Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Table of Contents Foreword 1 Yongha Kim and Gyorgy Szell 0. Abstracts ...