Rethinking European Welfare: Transformations of Europe and Social Policy

`This is an important and timely book not least in considering the EU′s inchoate social regime alongside established national systems, that draws attentionto the subtle, yet often neglected, ways in which welfare systems unwittingly distort the lives of their beneficiaries′ - Political Studies

Rethinking European Welfare provides a wide-ranging and innovative rethinking of the study of Europe and social policy and offers new ways of analysing European welfare and its future.

Whilst acknowledging the importance of research and analysis of policy making in Europe, this Reader addresses a range of other challenging and provoking issues which have been marginalized or ignored in the study of European social policy.

It will be essential reading for students of European social policy, social and public administration, social work, sociology, politics, cultural studies and European studies.

CONTRIBUTORS ARE ALL AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY EXCEPT:

Avtar Brah Birbeck College, University of London

Ray Hudson University of Durham

Eleonore Kofman Nottingham Trent University

Lila Leontidou University of the Aegean

Phil Marfleet University of East London

António Nóvoa University of Lisbon

Diane Sainsbury University of Stockholm

Rosemary Sales Middlesex University

Yasemin Soysal University of Essex

Allan M Williams University of Exeter

Fiona Williams University of Leeds