Scandinavia in a new Europe /
Can we predict the future of Scandinavian welfare states? Are the models of equality, solidarity and social justice going to survive in an enlarged and united Europe? How will the processes of globalization and regionalization affect the uniqueness of the societies of this region? What role will Sca...
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Oslo, Norway : Oxford :
Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget AS) ; Distributed world-wide excluding Norway by Oxford University Press,
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Oslo : Scandinavian University Press, 1993. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Scandinavia Between Utopia and Anarchy / Thomas P. Boje and Sven E. Olsson Hort
- Pt. I. The Welfare System in Scandinavia and Continental Europe
- 1. The Scandinavian Welfare Model in the New Europe / Pekka Kosonen
- 2. Welfare Policy in Sweden / Sven E. Olsson Hort
- 3. Policy Regimes and Attitudes to Inequality: A Comparison of Three European Nations / Stefan Svallfors
- Pt. II. Scandinavian Labour Markets in Transition
- 4. Flexible Production, Employment and Gender / Thomas P. Boje and Lise Drewes Nielsen
- 5. Atypical Employment in the Nordic Countries: Toward Marginalisation or Normalisation? / Jouko Natti
- 6. Work Reforms in Sweden 1970-1990: From Labour Market Pressures to Corporate Strategies / Christian Berggren
- 7. Leaders and Laggards: Who Goes First in Bargaining Rounds? / Steen Scheuer
- Pt. III. Time and Space in Social Life
- 8. Nordic State Feminism in the 1990s: Whose Ally? / Chris Meyer
- 9. The Timing of Women's Commodification
- How Part-time Solutions became Part-time Traps / Kristin Tornes
- 10. Social Steering of Lifestyles: The Case of Health Promotion Campaigns in Sweden / Bengt Erik Eriksson
- Pt. IV. Social Movements and Regional Development
- 11. New Social Movements in the Nordic Countries / Peter Gundelach
- 12. Space and Welfare: The EC and the Eclipse of the Scandinavian Model / Ib Jorgensen and Jens Tonboe
- Afterword: Scandinavia in the New Europe
- Final Remarks / Thomas P. Bole and Sven E. Olsson Hort.