Integrating Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare State Research: A Unified Typology of Capitalisms By MartinSchröderBasingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN 978-1-13-731029-3; £55.00 (hbk).
Integrating Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare State Research: A Unified Typology of Capitalisms By MartinSchröderBasingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN 978-1-13-731029-3; £55.00 (hbk).
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整合资本主义与福利国家研究的多样性:资本主义的统一类型 作者:MartinSchröderBasingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan,2013。ISBN 978-1-13-731029-3;
DOI:
10.1111/spol.12051_3
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Deeming C
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作者:
Deeming C
Demographers and sociologists have long been concerned about the passages involved in individuals’ transitions to adulthood. Both the occurrence and timing of events have often been scrutinized to understand the factors preventing young individuals from becoming ‘full adults’. However, the current economic crisis has highlighted the complexity underlying these passages, prompting scholars to re-evaluate what constitutes a transition to adulthood and, especially, what institutional mechanisms exist to aid young adults achieve each phase of the transition. By combining insights from social policy and gender studies, Work, Family Policies and Transitions to Adulthood in Europe contributes substantially to the literature by going well beyond the mere analysis of demographic markers. Instead, focusing on young adults’ obstacles and challenges, the book presents a comprehensive and timely view on the interplay between individuals’ life courses and the institutional settings. The book, which was inspired by two sources of literature, is structured in two parts. The first part, based on studies on new social risks and welfare solutions to these risks, presents in three chapters the social policy paradigms and policy solutions adopted in the EU to address young adults’ risks. At the forefront of these paradigms is the need to understand how current social policies contribute to reconcile young adults’ work and family. By evaluating three policy paradigms–namely the social investment approach, the transitional labour market and the individual life course approach–the authors highlight substantial differences in how each of these paradigms defines the problem and solutions, despite sharing common language such as new social risks, life course, human capital and re-commodification. Moreover, by normatively prioritizing work over family, it is noted that these paradigms emphasize the consequences of family life for employment. This remark brings the authors to adopt a novel view by ‘celebrating the family’(p. 6) and, instead, examine the existing opportunities for young adults to create an autonomous household.The second part of the book, inspired by the transition to adulthood literature, consists of five chapters which examine descriptively and in a comparative fashion each passage of the transition–leaving the parental home, entering the labour market, earning an independent income and family formation–whilst exploring how policies in each country contribute to encourage or prevent the transition from occurring. Furthermore, some chapters contain