Towards A Social Investment Welfare State?Ideas, Policies and Challenges

Morel, Nathalie; Palier, Bruno; Palme, Joakim

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“…State intervention in market principles is seen as necessary, often because market mechanisms seem to fail to adequately supply essential welfare to reasonable standards to large fractions of the population. It has also been argued that public welfare is more economically efficient, for example in health, education and housing, sometimes contributing in the longer term to increased labor productivity (Morel, Palier & Palme, 2012). Furthermore, individual choice on a free market is sometimes restricted as true competition may be obscured due to monopolies.…”

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Housing Deprivation in Europe: On the Role of Rental Tenure Types

Borg

2014

Housing, Theory and Society

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Housing Deprivation in Europe: On the Role of Rental Tenure Types

Borg

2014

Housing, Theory and Society

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“…In this vein, a second understanding of investment is one that makes the case for social investment as a form of wealth creation, which is also found in arguments in favour of a social investment state that invests in its citizens in order to enhance their productivity (Morel et al, 2012). Similarly, feminist economics frameworks quantify the unpaid work of social reproduction in order to demand its recognition (cf.…”

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Valorised but not valued? Affective remuneration, social reproduction and feminist politics beyond the crisis

Dowling

2016

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This paper proposes an analytical distinction between modes of valorising and modes of valuing social reproduction to suggest that a conflict between these two opposing modes lies at the heart of an ongoing crisis of social reproduction in the face of purported economic recovery, where unpaid reproductive labour constitutes a source of surplus value. A systemic imperative to expand markets in the pursuit of profitability goes hand in hand with a devaluation of social reproduction, either by making this work invisible or by externalising its cost. The paper analyses the specificities of this process in the context of contemporary Britain and investigates the role of the state, focusing on volunteering and new forms of 'affective remuneration' linked to financialisation and the connection between social reproduction and wealth extraction. In conclusion, the paper outlines the contours of possible counter-practices informed by a feminist politics. KeywordsSocial reproduction, affective remuneration, financialisation, affective labour, volunteering, valorisation, feminism. 2The only good thing about living in austerity Britain is that through pushing us into a corner, the government and the money that controls it is unwittingly training up a generation of fighters. Some of us will kick and scream. Others will be by the ringside healing the wounded. And the rest? We'll be coming up with new ways of undermining the violence raining down on us from above. We'll be digging the tunnels and laying the path for a better and ultra-civil society where there won't be a deserving or undeserving divide … just people, a planet and the mutual care of both.Leah Borromeo 1Feminist politics regarding social reproduction makes visible the hidden, unacknowledged and unpaid reproductive work predominantly carried out by women in the home, in communities and in gendered ways in the workplace. Key to this struggle has been the denaturalisation of women as assistants, carers and housewives seen as performing unpaid reproductive labour out of affection or responsibility for those they care for, or because it has been considered their social role. Feminist struggle has also sought to achieve social and cultural recognition of reproductive work as work, demanding independent and direct remuneration as well as an explicit accounting for its value in national economies. Overall, feminist struggles have sought to challenge the roles assigned to women and thus de-gender 2 the social division of labour, not simply for the purposes of achieving equality between the sexes, but to bring about an altogether different kind of society, thereby highlighting the value of social reproduction for intersectional struggles against exploitation, oppression and the destruction of the environment.The premise of this paper is that social reproduction is still not valued in such ways, Organising against the crisis of social reproductionSocial reproduction, the work of producing labour power and life, can be understood in terms of spheres -the places wher...

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“…ambas cuestiones han sido tratadas desde hace algo más de una década por parte de una nueva corriente de estudios del eB que han planteado la necesidad de pro- ceder a la transformación del mismo en una institución centrada en políti-cas que «preparen en vez de reparen», en una frase que se ha convertido en el lema de dicha perspectiva. se habla así de «estado de Bienestar centrado en la inversión social», de «estado de Bienestar desarrollista» o de «libera-lismo inclusivo 42 . La idea es reforzar las actuaciones del eB con efecto positivo sobre la acumulación de capital humano y su activación, lo que exige priorizar la educación en todos los niveles incluyendo la educación 0-3, la salud, el respaldo a las tareas de reproducción social-familiar para facilitar la plena activación de las personas, especialmente, las mujeres, etc.…”

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Crisis, post-crisis y Estado de Bienestar: ¿hacia dónde transita el Modelo Social Europeo?

Llorente

2016

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Sumario: i. introducción.-ii. Los modelos de Bienestar europeos en el contexto del modelo social europeo.-iii. resiliencia y cambio del estado de Bienestar.-iV. reformas estructurales y cambio en los eB de europeos. 4.1. reforma sin complejos en el reino unido: hacia una sociedad de mercado. 4.2. La integración de política de empleo y asistencia social. el caso alemán. 4.3. «Here, there and everywhere»: la reforma generalizada de los sistemas de pensiones. 4.4. La reforma global. el caso de los países sujetos a intervención financiera como resultado de la crisis económica de 2008.-V. conclusiones.Resumen: La crisis económica, su gestión y la post-crisis han tenido un efecto innegable sobre el desarrollo de los estados de Bienestar en europa. Las reformas estructurales desarrolladas han afectado gravemente la fortaleza del estado de Bienestar ya sea por dirigirse directamente contra él, ya sea por los daños colaterales de la política de ajuste fiscal desarrollada. este artículo tiene como objetivo valorar hasta qué punto la crisis económica y su gestión, impulsada y avalada por el ecoFin (consejo de asuntos económicos y Financieros de la unión europea), ha afectado a unos estados de Bienestar europeos que hasta la crisis se habían mostrado, en las grandes líneas de sus actuaciones, razonablemente resilientes a los ataques de los que habían sido objeto durante décadas.Palabras clave: estado de Bienestar, modelo social europeo, crisis. Abstract: The economic crisis and the economic policy followed to readdress the main economic disequilibrium generated have affected the development of Eu

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Towards A Social Investment Welfare State?Ideas, Policies and Challenges

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