Research Catalog

Title

The Search for equity / David Foden and Peter Morris, editors.

Publication

London : Lawrence & Wishart, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Foden, David
• Morris, Peter, 1946 October 25-
• UNISON (Organization)
• European Trade Union Institute
• International Progressive Policy Conference (3rd : 1997 : Brussels, Belgium)

Description

247 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Comprises 18 essays covering four broad themes: changes in the world economy; unemployment and labour market reform; taxes and public finance; and partnerships between unions and other actors of society.

Alternative Title

Welfare and security in the global economy

Subject

• Social policy
• Public welfare
• Economic policy
• Labor policy
• Social justice
• International economic relations

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "Welfare and security in the global economy"--Cover.
• "Published in association with ETUI and UNISON"--P. 4 of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / David Foden and Peter Morris -- Economic globalisation : the need for a social dimension / John Evans -- Social policy and economic performance / Allan Larsson -- Will the success of the German model be its undoing? / Jurgen Hoffmann -- The high road to development : Japan and the stakeholder agenda / Sadahiko Inoue and Fujikazu Suzuki -- The political economy of Europe / Paul Ormerod -- Restoring prosperity : why the US model is not the answer for the US or Europe / Thomas J. Palley -- The human development enterprise : pushing beyond stakeholderism / Guy Standing -- Welfare, security and economic performance / Peter Cassells -- Working time and employment / Bettina Agathonos-Mähr.
• Social security : class struggle from above? / Heiner Gansmann -- Japan as the first non-Western welfare state / Sadahiko Inoue -- Tax and public finance : some issues from a UK Left perspective / Dan Corry -- Recent tax reforms in Norway--what have we learned? / Eystein Gjelsvik -- Should Europe import US supply-side economics? / Max B. Sawicky -- The role of trade unions in an interdependent world / Bill Jordan -- What can civil society do? / Linda Tarr-Whelan -- NGOs and trade unions : a useful collaboration? / Giampiero Alhadeff -- Economic growth and social justice in the global economy : political challenges, policy choices / David Kusnet and Robert Taylor.

ISBN

0853158649

OCLC

• 39823254
• SCSB-12289318

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library