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NEW BOOK: "the incomplete revolution"
Our future depends very much on how we respond to three great challenges of the new century, all of which threaten to increase social inequality: first, how we adapt institutions to the new role of women - the ‘incomplete revolution' of our time; second, how we prepare our children for the knowledge economy; and, third, how we respond to the new demography, in particular low fertility and an ageing population.
In this new book Gøsta Esping-Andersen - the leading analyst of the welfare state - examines how different societies have responded to these challenges. It focuses especially on the quest for gender equality, on the role of families in the reproduction of social inequalities, and on major inequities associated with an ageing population. Through comparative analysis he seeks to identify the kinds of welfare state reform that can optimize not only individuals' life chances but also collective welfare. The intellectual ambition is, in other words, to identify the mainsprings of a new and superior form of social equilibrium.
This book will be of great interest to anyone concerned with gender and the changing role of women, with social and public policy, and with the future of the welfare state
You can read more and purchase this book here.
Other books
- Trois Lecons sur L"Etat Providence (with Bruno Palier). Paris: Le Seuil. 2008 (buy on-line)
- Family Formation and Low Fertility. Madrid: BBVA. 2006
- Why We Need a New Welfare State (with D. Gallie, A.Hemerijck and J. Myles). Oxford. 2002
- A Welfare State for the 21st Century. Sakurai-Shoten. 2002
- Why Deregulate Labour Markets? (with M. Regini). Oxford. 2000.
- Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. Oxford. 1999 (translation in Italian Japanese and Spanish)
- Welfare States in Transition: Social Security in a Global Economy. Sage. 1996.
- Changing Classes: Social Stratification in Postindustrial Europe and North America (editor, contributor). Sage. 1993.
- The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Polity Press. Princeton University Press. 1990. (transation in Chinese, Greek, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Korean)
- Stagnation and Renewal: The Rise and Fall of Social Policy Regimes (edited with M. Rein & L. Rainwater). M.E. Sharpe. 1987.
- Politics against Markets. Princeton University Press. 1985.
- Political Power and Social Theory (Volume 3) (edited with R. Friedland). JAI Press. . 1982.
- Social Class, Social Democracy And State Policy. New Social Science, Mongraphs (Copenhagen). 1980.