Childhood, generational order and the welfare state : exploring children's social and economic welfare
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Childhood, generational order and the welfare state : exploring children's social and economic welfare
(COST A19: Children's welfare, v. 1)(University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences, v. 337)
University Press of Southern Denmark, 2007
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
So far, research on the welfare state has usually neglected children and childhood. In the rare attempts to include childhood in welfare state analysis, too much emphasis was placed on children as future adults. However, only a full recognition of children as human beings and citizens here and now are compatible with new social studies of childhood as well as children's rights discourses. Thus the conceptual integration of children and childhood in the welfare state is still an open question. The present book tries to close this gap by offering the concept of generational order as theoretical tool to both childhood and welfare state research. In analogy to gender analysis, this concept is an adequate tool for making the adultist bias of traditional welfare state theories and practices visible. Authors of 10 predominantly European countries explore in 11 chapters issues of children's social and economic welfare such as child poverty in a theoretical methodological and practical perspective. Together with volume 2, "Flexible Childhood", this book is the final result of COST Action A19, Children's Welfare, which has been supported by the European COST Framework.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Theorising Children's Welfare
- Whose Children? Families and Children in "Activating" Welfare States
- Welfare States and Generational Order
- Some Problems in the International Comparison of Child Income Poverty
- Child Poverty in the U.S.: A New Family Budget Approach with Comparison to European Countries
- Child Benefit Packages in 22 Countries
- Negotiating Child Poverty: Children's Subjective Experiences of Life on a Low Income
- Children's Rights to a Decent Standard of Living
- Working Children and the 'Descholarisation' of Childhood
- Age Order and Children's Agency
- European Childhood - Diverging or Converging?
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